2 options
Miss Stephen's Apprenticeship : How Virginia Stephen Became Virginia Woolf / Rosalind Brackenbury.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brackenbury, Rosalind, author.
- Series:
- Muse books.
- Muse books : the Iowa series in creativity & writing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
- Women and literature--England--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, English.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (118 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City [Iowa] : University of Iowa Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- During the years leading up to her marriage with Leonard Woolf in 1912, the year in which she finished The Voyage Out and sent it to be published by her cousin at Duckworth's, the future Virginia Woolf was teaching herself how to be a writer. While her brothers were sent first to private schools, then to Cambridge to be educated, Virginia Stephen and her sister Vanessa were informally educated at home. With this background, how did she know she was a writer? What were her struggles? How did she teach herself? What made Miss Stephen into the author Virginia Woolf? Miss Stephen's Apprenticeship explores these questions, delving into Virginia Woolf 's letters and diaries, seeking to understand how she covered the distance from the wistful "I only wish I could write," to the almost casual statement, "the novels are finished." These days, the trajectory of a writer very often starts with studying for an MFA. In Woolf 's case, however, it's instructive to ask: How did a great writer, who had no formal education, invent for herself the framework she needed for a writing life? How did she know what she had to learn? How did she make her own way? Novelist Rosalind Brackenbury explores these questions and others, and in the process reveals what Virginia Woolf can give to young writers today.
- Contents:
- Expectations
- Reading
- Writing
- Looking and listening
- The place
- Family and friends
- Routine
- "That dangerous ground"
- The first novel
- "The only woman in England."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-60938-552-7
- OCLC:
- 1043884390
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.