Woolf, Virginia

See the entry on Woolf, Virginia, in the Dictionary of National Biography ip4i-ipjo (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1959), pp. 975-6. 

Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf Writer and Personality , in Stape, Virginia Woolf Interviews and Recollections, p. 6. Quentin Bell also refers to this episode in Virginia Woolf A Biography, 1972 (repr. London Hogarth, 1982), vol. i, pp. 89-90. 

If for Marcus the early, discarded drafts of texts were often seen as the truer , more overtly feminist versions which were then suppressed, DeSalvo s work on buried and repressed narratives may well have influenced her contentious biography of Woolf, Virginia Woolf The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work (1989). For DeSalvo, Woolf s life s work - her memoirs and her autobiography, her novels, her essays and biographies - is an invaluable missing link in the history of incest, abuse, and the effects of family violence . In her work, DeSalvo writes, Woolf carved out a way to tell her story. . . and that of other childhood victims of abuse and neglect . 

I. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941-Criticism and interpretation. I. Sellers, Susan. 

After the above statement of intentions was prepared, I realized it wasn t very honest, in the sense that it wasn t quite going to prepare the reader for what was coming. It was then that I thought of the introduction by Virginia Woolf. 

British novelist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) became so enraptured by In Search of Lost Time that she wrote, Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh, if I could write like this To Woolf, Proust s work was the greatest of adventures. She felt that nothing could be written after Proust. How has someone solidified what has always escaped—and made it too into this beautiful and perfectly enduring substance One has to put the book down and gasp. ... 

See Holly Henry, Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science The Aesthetics of Astronomy (Cambridge, 2003), p.115. 

Holly Henry, Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science The Aesthetics of Astronomy (Cambridge, 2003) Kurt Herberts, ed., Modulation und Patina Ein Dokument aus dem Wuppertaler Arbeitskreis um WtUi Baumeister, Oskar Schlemmer, Franz Krause, 1937-1944, exh. cat. (Stuttgart, 1989)... 

So did Pablo Picasso.) They were tuned into the physical world and responded intuitively to the rhythms of the body. But by and large they had difficulties in dealing with the practical stuff — finances included. Examples include Isadora Duncan, Virginia Woolf, and Albert Einstein. 

Virginia Woolf published a condensed version of Three Guineas under the title Women Must Weep - Or Unite Against War in Atlantic Monthly, May and June 1938. She later retrenched her position. 

For Virginia Woolf s essay on The New Biography see 4, p. 473. Bloomsbury s Memoir Club first met in March 1920, at the instigation of Molly MacCarthy, and met fairly often but irregularly thereafter. 

See Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice The Early Journals 1897-1909, ed. Mitchell A. Leaska (London Hogarth, 1990), details from which are not noted here. 

Virginia Woolf, TL (Harmondsworth Penguin, 1992), p. 23. All further references will be to this edition. 

See, for example, David Bradshaw, Vicious Circles Hegel, Bosanquet, and The Voyage Out, in Diane F. Gillespie and Leslie K. Hankins (eds.), Virginia Woolf and the Arts Selected Papers from the Sixth Annual Conference on Virginia Woo// (New York Pace University Press, 1997), pp. 183-91. 

For a detailed record of Woolf s classical studies, see Brenda Lyons, Textual Voyages Platonic Allusions in Virginia Woolf s Fiction (unpublished D.Phil. thesis. University of Oxford, 1995). 

Christine Froula, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde War, Civilization, Modernity (New York Columbia University Press, 1005). 

Virginia Woolf s early novels Finding a voice... 

Virginia Woolf was fascinated with what it meant to hear oneself say I am . In a 1930 review of a biography of Christina Rossetti, Woolf quotes Rossetti s abrupt assertion of herself at a tea-party ... 

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