Ancestral Houses: Virginia Woolf and the Aristocracy

by Sonya Rudikoff

An independent Woolf scholar, Rudikoff (1927-97) examines the writer's fascination with the English aristocracy, which embraced admiration, envy, and disdain. She draws particularly on letters and diary entries to document the self-described feminist and socialist and middle-class-born Woolf's lifelong interest in the high-born. Published by the Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship (SPOSS). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

290 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1999