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© 1991

Virginia Woolf A Literary Life

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Part of the Macmillan Literary Lives book series

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. 1882–1903: Virginia Stephen Becomes a Writer
    John Mepham
    Pages 1-12
  3. 1904–1909: Journalist
    John Mepham
    Pages 13-29
  4. 1910–15: Moratorium and Crisis
    John Mepham
    Pages 30-46
  5. 1916–21: A Press of One’s Own
    John Mepham
    Pages 47-62
  6. 1922–24: Her Own Voice
    John Mepham
    Pages 63-90
  7. 1925–27: Modernist Fictions
    John Mepham
    Pages 91-118
  8. 1928–31: Androgyny and the End of the Novel
    John Mepham
    Pages 119-144
  9. 1932–37: The Outsider
    John Mepham
    Pages 145-172
  10. 1938–40: Life-Writing
    John Mepham
    Pages 173-190
  11. 1941: The Illusion Fails
    John Mepham
    Pages 191-204
  12. Conclusion
    John Mepham
    Pages 205-207
  13. Back Matter
    Pages 208-222
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About this book

Introduction

This book tells the story of Virginia Woolf's literary career. It emphasises the importance of her ownership of the Hogarth Press, whereby she gained the freedom to write as she pleased. This made possible a career of extraordinary formal innovations. Each of her books was unlike every other. Her career was a series of different choices, statements and masks. This book attempts to discover why, at each point in her career, she chose to write as she did.

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