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Virginia Woolf: An Illustrated Biography
This beautifully illustrated biography follows Virginia Woolf's remarkable life and work (which includes Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves) and celebrates the literary icon's immense legacy. It also draws in the characters of the Bloomsbury Group - a band of friends with a revolutionary approach to art and culture - including Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Leonard Woolf.
128 pages, Hardcover
First published April 20, 2015
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April 30, 2025"I will not be 'famous' 'great'. I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped.''
Diary, October 1933
Biografias sobre Virginia Woolf nunca são, em minha opinião, demasiadas. Venham elas sob a forma de longos testamentos académicos ou pequeninos volumes ilustrados, como este. Sobretudo, quando captam o espírito intrépido e apaixonado da biografada.
Claro que, sendo esta uma edição rotulada de infantil, há toda uma série de opções que as autoras tomam sobre uma biografia particularmente complexa (nomeadamente no que diz respeito à infância e adolescência de Virginia e Vanessa, há muito que fica por dizer); por outro lado há um risco evidente que estas tomam ao enveredar por pormenores mais técnicos que empurram este livro em direcção a uma literatura mais especializada/adulta. Como seja, Zena Alkayat e Nina Cosford trazem à estampa uma biografia intimista e capaz de nos transmitir a vivacidade e o romantismo da vida de Virginia Woolf em meia dúzia de traços de caneta - o que, pessoalmente, acho extraordinário.
Num saltinho, vamos do seu berço eduariano à juventude liberal e chegamos aos famosos corredores de Bloomsbury onde Virginia e Vanessa recriam o lar que nunca tiveram e, entre alguns dos maiores nomes da sua época, desenham novas formas de pensar e estar no mundo, debatem questões de política e género, desfazem preconceitos, abrem espaços de diálogo e chocam a sociedade com o seu estilo de vida espontâneo. Para colorir essa narrativa maior, as autoras repescam pormenores deliciosos da vida de Virginia - desde o seu esforço para a criação de um espaço de habitação comunitário que, em 1911, partilhava com quatro homens (entre eles, Leonard Woolf, seu futuro marido), à sua admiração pelo estilo de vida aventureiro e poliamoroso da irmã, Vanessa, ao seu caráter introvertido e aspeto original:
A beauty like her mother, Virginia also looked rather eccentric. Her hair pins often fell loose and she was self-conscious about dressing up.
Entradas na faceta profissional de Woolf, as autoras guardam para o leitor (e, sobretudo, para o admirador), as maiores pérolas, dando a conhecer números com os quais não nos deparamos sem mais nem ontem, pequeninos factos que arrebatam e alimentam a curiosidadede de quem conhece a sua obra:
She suffered a relapse just as "The voyage out'' was published [1915]. It took fifteen years to sell two thousand copies.
"The years'' (took five years to write and was published in 1937) (...) sold 43,909 copies in the first six months.
"Mrs Dalloway''[1925] paid for a new bathroom to be installed at Monk's house; "Orlando'' paid for Virginia's new bedroom.
Entretanto, vamos navegando pelas palavras , pelo pensamento, pelo casamento, pela vida familiar, pelas sucessivas moradas, pelas reuniões de amigos, pela obra, pelas perdas e pelas inúmeras vitórias que constituem a vida de Woolf:
"There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.''
Diary, July 1922
No decorrer de algumas décadas vão-se nomeando obras memoráveis como Mrs. Dalloway ou Orlando, sem esquecer a sua estreia com A viagem (uma das minhas experiências mais intimistas enquanto leitora), Os Anos ou Entre os actos (obra maior daquilo que é a "corrente de consciência", mas que Woolf acreditava ser apenas uma criação "trivial").
Escapando incólumes à apologia, as autoras percorrem a sua vida sem julgamentos de valor, deixando, aqui e ali, antever um prenúncio de admiração, mas sem o elevar ao elogio. Adequadamente pontuada pelas próprias palavras de Woolf, esta biografia fornece o essencial para quem desconheça a autora e o fundamental para quem, como eu, lhe devote uma adoração quase irracional. Em pouco mais de 100 páginas, esta biografia delineia uma vida (demasiado curta) consagrada à escrita, à amizade e à liberdade mais plena: a liberdade de sermos nós mesmos até ao fim. Que melhor lição poderia Virginia Woolf ter para nós, aqui e agora?
On the morning of March 28, 1941, Virginia put on a fur coat, picked up her cane and went out to the river Ouse. She collected heavy stones and dropped them in her pockets. She was fifty-nine.
Diary, October 1933
Biografias sobre Virginia Woolf nunca são, em minha opinião, demasiadas. Venham elas sob a forma de longos testamentos académicos ou pequeninos volumes ilustrados, como este. Sobretudo, quando captam o espírito intrépido e apaixonado da biografada.
Claro que, sendo esta uma edição rotulada de infantil, há toda uma série de opções que as autoras tomam sobre uma biografia particularmente complexa (nomeadamente no que diz respeito à infância e adolescência de Virginia e Vanessa, há muito que fica por dizer); por outro lado há um risco evidente que estas tomam ao enveredar por pormenores mais técnicos que empurram este livro em direcção a uma literatura mais especializada/adulta. Como seja, Zena Alkayat e Nina Cosford trazem à estampa uma biografia intimista e capaz de nos transmitir a vivacidade e o romantismo da vida de Virginia Woolf em meia dúzia de traços de caneta - o que, pessoalmente, acho extraordinário.
Num saltinho, vamos do seu berço eduariano à juventude liberal e chegamos aos famosos corredores de Bloomsbury onde Virginia e Vanessa recriam o lar que nunca tiveram e, entre alguns dos maiores nomes da sua época, desenham novas formas de pensar e estar no mundo, debatem questões de política e género, desfazem preconceitos, abrem espaços de diálogo e chocam a sociedade com o seu estilo de vida espontâneo. Para colorir essa narrativa maior, as autoras repescam pormenores deliciosos da vida de Virginia - desde o seu esforço para a criação de um espaço de habitação comunitário que, em 1911, partilhava com quatro homens (entre eles, Leonard Woolf, seu futuro marido), à sua admiração pelo estilo de vida aventureiro e poliamoroso da irmã, Vanessa, ao seu caráter introvertido e aspeto original:
A beauty like her mother, Virginia also looked rather eccentric. Her hair pins often fell loose and she was self-conscious about dressing up.
Entradas na faceta profissional de Woolf, as autoras guardam para o leitor (e, sobretudo, para o admirador), as maiores pérolas, dando a conhecer números com os quais não nos deparamos sem mais nem ontem, pequeninos factos que arrebatam e alimentam a curiosidadede de quem conhece a sua obra:
She suffered a relapse just as "The voyage out'' was published [1915]. It took fifteen years to sell two thousand copies.
"The years'' (took five years to write and was published in 1937) (...) sold 43,909 copies in the first six months.
"Mrs Dalloway''[1925] paid for a new bathroom to be installed at Monk's house; "Orlando'' paid for Virginia's new bedroom.
Entretanto, vamos navegando pelas palavras , pelo pensamento, pelo casamento, pela vida familiar, pelas sucessivas moradas, pelas reuniões de amigos, pela obra, pelas perdas e pelas inúmeras vitórias que constituem a vida de Woolf:
"There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.''
Diary, July 1922
No decorrer de algumas décadas vão-se nomeando obras memoráveis como Mrs. Dalloway ou Orlando, sem esquecer a sua estreia com A viagem (uma das minhas experiências mais intimistas enquanto leitora), Os Anos ou Entre os actos (obra maior daquilo que é a "corrente de consciência", mas que Woolf acreditava ser apenas uma criação "trivial").
Escapando incólumes à apologia, as autoras percorrem a sua vida sem julgamentos de valor, deixando, aqui e ali, antever um prenúncio de admiração, mas sem o elevar ao elogio. Adequadamente pontuada pelas próprias palavras de Woolf, esta biografia fornece o essencial para quem desconheça a autora e o fundamental para quem, como eu, lhe devote uma adoração quase irracional. Em pouco mais de 100 páginas, esta biografia delineia uma vida (demasiado curta) consagrada à escrita, à amizade e à liberdade mais plena: a liberdade de sermos nós mesmos até ao fim. Que melhor lição poderia Virginia Woolf ter para nós, aqui e agora?
On the morning of March 28, 1941, Virginia put on a fur coat, picked up her cane and went out to the river Ouse. She collected heavy stones and dropped them in her pockets. She was fifty-nine.
February 25, 2018
This book raises a lot of interesting questions about how biography happens, how choices are made in terms of what is included and what left out, and what in a person's life is "appropriate" or particularly meaningful for kids books vs. adult books.
A few gr reviewers say this is not a book for kids. Perhaps because of all the love affairs or perhaps because of Woolf's suicide? Or maybe just because it is assumed kids wouldn't be interested in publication dates? A few say they found the biography shelved "mistakenly" in kids book sections of a library or bookstore. One calls it a "teensy biography." A few call it a picture book for adults. One says "maybe middle grade and up." Some reviewers say it's not in-depth enough to be an adult book. Others say it's a kind of "overview" of her life. An outline. And yet others say they learned a lot of new things about Virginia Woolf from reading it.
So, in essence, it's a book without a clear audience, one that's maybe a bit liminal. It's always wonderful when books defy the categories we try to set out for them. Kids/adult. Serious/silly. Informative/entertaining...Certainly this is not a scholarly or in-depth account of Woolf's life, and yet, it's intimate, gives a particularly acute sense of a certain restlessness and hunger for life, and also a lifelong struggle with illness. The Woolf in this account is a person who is passionate about art and ideas, and whose intellectual life does not preclude playfulness. It is all about playfulness--about the desire to observe and take in the external world as well as exploring her internal one, and to set it on the page in a way which shakes up our assumptions about what narrative should look like, feel like, and accomplish.
There is a sense of simplicity in this book as it holds Woolf's complexity. I left its pages feeling like I knew Woolf better and also that she was utterly mysterious, even more so than before I picked the book up. Partly because of all the things Alkayat leaves out, and partly because people are terribly simple and utterly unknowable.
The images are beautiful and whimsical and add a certain amount of levity to the book and yet, to a large degree, they form the deeper emotional tug of its pages.
There is a lovely review in Brain Pickings from 2016. Below are a few quotes as well as a link to the review: "...writer Zena Alkayat and artist Nina Cosford pull back the cotton wool of Woolf’s own remarkable life and explore the thing itself with equal parts concision, compassion, and unsentimental reverence."
"On March 28, 1941, Virginia fills her overcoat pockets with rocks, leaves Leonard a poignant farewell letter, walks into the River Ouse behind their house, and drowns. Measured by its end, her life is undeniably tragic. Measured by its substance, a sort of creative aliveness which few artists have matched in the entire history of humanity, it is undeniably triumphant. The book is a reminder — perhaps uncomfortable, but very much necessary and ultimately jubilant — that complexity and contradiction are the raw material of life, and that an extraordinary life contains an extraordinary dosage of both."
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04...
A few gr reviewers say this is not a book for kids. Perhaps because of all the love affairs or perhaps because of Woolf's suicide? Or maybe just because it is assumed kids wouldn't be interested in publication dates? A few say they found the biography shelved "mistakenly" in kids book sections of a library or bookstore. One calls it a "teensy biography." A few call it a picture book for adults. One says "maybe middle grade and up." Some reviewers say it's not in-depth enough to be an adult book. Others say it's a kind of "overview" of her life. An outline. And yet others say they learned a lot of new things about Virginia Woolf from reading it.
So, in essence, it's a book without a clear audience, one that's maybe a bit liminal. It's always wonderful when books defy the categories we try to set out for them. Kids/adult. Serious/silly. Informative/entertaining...Certainly this is not a scholarly or in-depth account of Woolf's life, and yet, it's intimate, gives a particularly acute sense of a certain restlessness and hunger for life, and also a lifelong struggle with illness. The Woolf in this account is a person who is passionate about art and ideas, and whose intellectual life does not preclude playfulness. It is all about playfulness--about the desire to observe and take in the external world as well as exploring her internal one, and to set it on the page in a way which shakes up our assumptions about what narrative should look like, feel like, and accomplish.
There is a sense of simplicity in this book as it holds Woolf's complexity. I left its pages feeling like I knew Woolf better and also that she was utterly mysterious, even more so than before I picked the book up. Partly because of all the things Alkayat leaves out, and partly because people are terribly simple and utterly unknowable.
The images are beautiful and whimsical and add a certain amount of levity to the book and yet, to a large degree, they form the deeper emotional tug of its pages.
There is a lovely review in Brain Pickings from 2016. Below are a few quotes as well as a link to the review: "...writer Zena Alkayat and artist Nina Cosford pull back the cotton wool of Woolf’s own remarkable life and explore the thing itself with equal parts concision, compassion, and unsentimental reverence."
"On March 28, 1941, Virginia fills her overcoat pockets with rocks, leaves Leonard a poignant farewell letter, walks into the River Ouse behind their house, and drowns. Measured by its end, her life is undeniably tragic. Measured by its substance, a sort of creative aliveness which few artists have matched in the entire history of humanity, it is undeniably triumphant. The book is a reminder — perhaps uncomfortable, but very much necessary and ultimately jubilant — that complexity and contradiction are the raw material of life, and that an extraordinary life contains an extraordinary dosage of both."
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04...
October 20, 2016
I found this delightful picture book in the children's section of a used bookshop . . .
First of all, who would ever give this lovely little volume away? Second, this book is most definitely not for children. I would, perhaps, give it to a teenager who was beginning to read the Virginia Woolf oeuvre. It's also a must for the Virginia Woolf collector.
Author Alkayat does an admirable job of collating quotations, biography, and excerpts from the author's work. It really is a neat overview of the highlights of Virginia Woolf's life: the people, the work, the historical timeline. The illustrations, by Nina Cosford, are top-notch - and somehow in keeping with the Bloomsbury style. CHARMING!
First of all, who would ever give this lovely little volume away? Second, this book is most definitely not for children. I would, perhaps, give it to a teenager who was beginning to read the Virginia Woolf oeuvre. It's also a must for the Virginia Woolf collector.
Author Alkayat does an admirable job of collating quotations, biography, and excerpts from the author's work. It really is a neat overview of the highlights of Virginia Woolf's life: the people, the work, the historical timeline. The illustrations, by Nina Cosford, are top-notch - and somehow in keeping with the Bloomsbury style. CHARMING!
August 16, 2024
La edición de Virginia Woolf me ha gustado más, las ilustraciones son muy bonitas y de manera breve y concisa te van explicando la vida de la autora y sus obras.
February 7, 2024
króciutka, obrazkowa biografia Virginii Woolf
ładne ilustracje, całość przyjemna
ładne ilustracje, całość przyjemna
August 14, 2020
Love, love, love everything about this little book. I have no idea why it's taken me so long to pick up, despite owning it for ages.
The book itself is tiny, and very well published with thick pages, and a with a golden foil detailed hardcover. The watercolour art style is glorious, with a beautiful colour pallet matching the mood of each page.
As a literary figure, Virginia Woolf has to be one of my most favourites. Despite not having read much of her work, I am fascinated by her life (even more so after this), the relationships she formed, and the legacy she left behind. The fact that she committed suicide is obviously very sad, yet in a way her death fills me with a hard to describe type of peaceful melancholy, especially after how it is tastefully commented on at the end of this mini bio.
This is just a lovely, richly illustrated, biography of Virginia's life that is both compact, yet super informative. I learnt many a new fact reading this that I hadn't known before. Such as Vita Sackville-West being the inspiration behind Orlando- also, Vita comes across as quite the woman, too!
I have the Jane Austen edition of this 'Life Portrait' series, with my eyes on the Frida Kahlo one too, and I'm sure there must be more intriguing women featured in the series aswell.
Definitely pick this up if you see it!
The book itself is tiny, and very well published with thick pages, and a with a golden foil detailed hardcover. The watercolour art style is glorious, with a beautiful colour pallet matching the mood of each page.
As a literary figure, Virginia Woolf has to be one of my most favourites. Despite not having read much of her work, I am fascinated by her life (even more so after this), the relationships she formed, and the legacy she left behind. The fact that she committed suicide is obviously very sad, yet in a way her death fills me with a hard to describe type of peaceful melancholy, especially after how it is tastefully commented on at the end of this mini bio.
This is just a lovely, richly illustrated, biography of Virginia's life that is both compact, yet super informative. I learnt many a new fact reading this that I hadn't known before. Such as Vita Sackville-West being the inspiration behind Orlando- also, Vita comes across as quite the woman, too!
I have the Jane Austen edition of this 'Life Portrait' series, with my eyes on the Frida Kahlo one too, and I'm sure there must be more intriguing women featured in the series aswell.
Definitely pick this up if you see it!
March 3, 2017
Very quick read with cute illustrations. I think it would interesting to read a more in depth biography of her life (sounds tragic) since this book was more of little facts.
October 20, 2020
Scandalous!!!
Spicy and depressing as well. But obviously inspirational.
I love the crisp words. I love the illustrations. Well researched. Well represented.
Spicy and depressing as well. But obviously inspirational.
I love the crisp words. I love the illustrations. Well researched. Well represented.
December 31, 2025
Spending much of my December reading Virginia Woolf's seminal To The Lighthouse made me want to get to know the British author better (whatever knowledge I'd gleaned of her life while in college having leaked out of my brain like spaghetti water straight from the colander), and so I was delighted to discover that this charming illustrated biography was available from the library.
I found its whimsical style the perfect way to familiarize myself with the family, friends, and fortuitous life events of this talented, tortured artist. And for a peek at the magical illustrations I'm referring to, check out this essay with photos that I found online.
Speaking of that essay, I loved these parting lines in particular:
"Measured by its end, [Virginia's] life is undeniably tragic. Measured by its substance, a sort of creative aliveness which few artists have matched in the entire history of humanity, it is undeniably triumphant. The book is a reminder — perhaps uncomfortable, but very much necessary and ultimately jubilant — that complexity and contradiction are the raw material of life, and that an extraordinary life contains an extraordinary dosage of both."
I found its whimsical style the perfect way to familiarize myself with the family, friends, and fortuitous life events of this talented, tortured artist. And for a peek at the magical illustrations I'm referring to, check out this essay with photos that I found online.
Speaking of that essay, I loved these parting lines in particular:
"Measured by its end, [Virginia's] life is undeniably tragic. Measured by its substance, a sort of creative aliveness which few artists have matched in the entire history of humanity, it is undeniably triumphant. The book is a reminder — perhaps uncomfortable, but very much necessary and ultimately jubilant — that complexity and contradiction are the raw material of life, and that an extraordinary life contains an extraordinary dosage of both."
August 17, 2021
Muy cuqui, pero me esperaba otra cosa??? También creo que influye muchísimo el no tenerlo en físico
February 22, 2026
If it's intended for children, it's a little inappropriate. If it's not, then it's very surface level.
March 13, 2024
Захотілося прочитати ВСІ книжки Вірджинії Вульф!
February 29, 2020
Amazing biography. Now i want to read Virginia Woolf's works.
June 30, 2024
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This cute little volume is one of 4 illustrated biographies of famous women, of which I bought 3. The same brevity, multitude of cute color illustrations - it took no time at all to read through. Even though I'm a massive fan of Virginia Woolf and love all of her books, for some reason this book didn't grasp me. I'll read a proper biography sometime soon. Don't feel the need to hold on to this book, cute as it is.
This cute little volume is one of 4 illustrated biographies of famous women, of which I bought 3. The same brevity, multitude of cute color illustrations - it took no time at all to read through. Even though I'm a massive fan of Virginia Woolf and love all of her books, for some reason this book didn't grasp me. I'll read a proper biography sometime soon. Don't feel the need to hold on to this book, cute as it is.
June 5, 2018
I received a copy of Virginia Woolf: An Illustrated Biography for my birthday, and read it almost immediately. Everything about this book is an absolute delight. The writing is lovely, and manages to both be informative and spare, and the artwork is absolutely gorgeous. The author and illustrator work incredibly well together, and I will be looking out for more of their collaborations. This is a must for any Woolf fan, and it is a book which I will come back to time after time.
January 31, 2017
Opening line: 'She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on.'
July 31, 2019
Such a cute book with fun illustrations! Now I’m really pumped to read Virginia Woolf’s books :)
August 28, 2020
Delightful.
January 9, 2021
This was lovely. The illustrations very beautiful and the tone very fitting. I’m a big fan of Virginia Woolfs writing and I’m happy I bought this.
January 6, 2025
Beautiful illustrations, wish it was longer!
January 30, 2023
C'est le premier ouvrage biographique que je lis sur Virginia Woolf. Je ne savais pas du tout à quoi m'attendre et la fin m'a alors très émue (comme beaucoup de moments de sa vie) et m'a prise par surprise. Je voulais me renseigner un peu sur l'autrice avant de commencer un de ses romans. Franchement, si vous voulez faire pareil, je vous conseille celui-ci. On en après assez et on est pas noyés dans les détails qui ne sont peut-être pas bien utiles pour une première approche avec l'autrice.
De plus, les illustrations sont tout bonnement magnifique bravo à Nina Cosford pour son délicat et magnifique travail !
De plus, les illustrations sont tout bonnement magnifique bravo à Nina Cosford pour son délicat et magnifique travail !
August 29, 2016
A sweet little illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf.
A picture book for adults.
Has the bones of her life, like her family history and influences.
But also that she had a sweet tooth and the names of her pets.
Plus pet names for her and her husband.
Read in about 10 minutes.
An unexpected delight.
A picture book for adults.
Has the bones of her life, like her family history and influences.
But also that she had a sweet tooth and the names of her pets.
Plus pet names for her and her husband.
Read in about 10 minutes.
An unexpected delight.
October 24, 2018
Lo acabo de leer justo después de otro libro de la colección, Jane Austen: An Illustrated Biography, y me gustó tanto como el anterior.
Como ya había comentado en la otra reseña, es un libro muy bonito y muy bien editado y, también en este caso, con muchos detalles. Me quedo con ganas de leer los siguientes.
Como ya había comentado en la otra reseña, es un libro muy bonito y muy bien editado y, también en este caso, con muchos detalles. Me quedo con ganas de leer los siguientes.
December 26, 2017
Found this at the public library in the "staff picks" section. What a delightful surprise! A very quick read-- learned a lot about Virginia Woolf and enjoyed the graphic elements. I would like to read more in this graphic series.
May 10, 2022
I LOVED IT!, everything about this little book is lovable- The illustrations are beautiful; they really draw you into Woolf's world. It's concise yet it managed to share quite a lot of information in a simple, easy to follow thanks to the illustrations, way. I loved the small strewn beautiful quotes spread throughout. I'd recommend it to anyone looking to learn more about Woolf. I borrowed it at the library but it's definitely on my purchase list now.
I'm not sure why other reviewers found it in the children's section. I agree that it doesn't belong there (since Woolf's life was full of mature subjects). My guess is that the librarians didn't read it and seeing the illustrations just classified it as children's literature.
If you're hesitating, it's worth it. (Although it's not an in-depth treaty of her, so if that's what you're looking for, maybe this is not for you. But if you just want a general, broad view of her life/acquaitances/friends and family, this is perfect.)
I'm not sure why other reviewers found it in the children's section. I agree that it doesn't belong there (since Woolf's life was full of mature subjects). My guess is that the librarians didn't read it and seeing the illustrations just classified it as children's literature.
If you're hesitating, it's worth it. (Although it's not an in-depth treaty of her, so if that's what you're looking for, maybe this is not for you. But if you just want a general, broad view of her life/acquaitances/friends and family, this is perfect.)
January 22, 2022
Although quite brief, this tiny biography wrote longingly about the desperate life of Virginia Woolf. The writing is subtle, not exactly direct, so that the reader can then draw their own conclusions about Woolf's affairs and what drove her to end life. Simplistic, almost childlike, illustrations mimic the inexplicit writing style. Of course, the brevity of the book encourages one to delve into Woolf's life, to research Vita Sackville-West's, Vanessa's, Leonard's influences in her life and writing. In short, Alkayat's biography is akin to an aperitif: it offers just enough to titillate the reader to dig in deeper.
June 8, 2021
Beautifully drawn. I wished the creators had chosen more carefully about which tidbits to include and then highlight about Woolf’s life.
Compared to “On Wings of Words,” a book about Emily Dickinson, this one lacked a more cohesive love for the writer. (That one was over-romanticized, a little.)
I know—blend the two approaches and make books that show love and reality for the writers!
Compared to “On Wings of Words,” a book about Emily Dickinson, this one lacked a more cohesive love for the writer. (That one was over-romanticized, a little.)
I know—blend the two approaches and make books that show love and reality for the writers!
April 4, 2019
If all biographies were this short maybe I'd read more. There were certain things I did want to know more about though, maybe I should read a full biography of her someday.
I don't think I will ever get over Virginia's death.
All I can ever think is, Why?
I don't think I will ever get over Virginia's death.
All I can ever think is, Why?
April 27, 2025
"There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice."
"The Waves... It was Virginia's experiment with rhythm in place of plot and an homage to her Bloomsbury clique."
"The Waves... It was Virginia's experiment with rhythm in place of plot and an homage to her Bloomsbury clique."
February 9, 2017
It was a great little read!
I loved the format of the book...easy to read, quotes, images. I learned things about Virginia Woolf that I didn't know.
I loved the format of the book...easy to read, quotes, images. I learned things about Virginia Woolf that I didn't know.
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