Virginia Woolf

Hermione Lee Sees Virginia Woolf Afresh, in Her Historical Setting and As a Vital Figure for Our Times. Her Book Moves Freely Between a Richly Detailed Life-Story and New Attempts to Understand Crucial Questions - the Impact of Her Childhood, the Cause and Nature of Her Madness and Suicide, the Truth About Her Marriage, Her Feelings for Women, Her Prejudies and Obsessions. This is a Vivid, Close-Up Portrait, Returning to Primary Sources, and Showing Woolf As Occupying a Distinct, Even Uneasy Position With 'Bloomsbury'. It is a Writer's Life, Illustrating How the Concerns of Her Work Arise and Develop, and a Political Life, Which Establishes Woolf As a Radically Sceptical, Subversive, Courageous Feminist. Incorporating Newly Discovered Sources and Illustrated With Photos and Drawings Never Used Before, This Biography is a Revelation - Informed, Intelligent and Moving.