Overview
How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legaciesāof strength, style, and creativityāshaped Woolfās path to the radical writing that inspires so many today.
GillĀ casts back to Woolfās French-Anglo-Indian maternal great-grandmother, ThĆ©rĆØse de LāEtang,Ā whose aristocratic elegance and unconventional style passed mysteriously down through generations of the familyās women.Ā And she paintsĀ WoolfāsĀ eccentric and empathetic auntĀ Anne Thackeray Ritchie,Ā who gave Woolf, as a young girl, her first vision of a successful female writer. Yet it wasĀ the women in her own family circle who had the most complex and lasting effect on Woolf. Her mother, Julia, andĀ sisters Stella, Laura, and Vanessa were all, like Woolf herself, but in different ways, warpedĀ by the male-dominated, repressed Kensington household they lived in.Ā Finally, Gill shifts the lens onto the famousĀ Bloomsbury groupāwhere Woolf found her freedom and her voiceāand showsĀ how she transformed a group of men, united in their love for one another and theirĀ disregard forĀ women, into a society of creative equals. Ā
This book title, Virginia Woolf (And the Women Who Shaped Her World), ISBN: 9781328683953, by Gillian Gill, published by HMH Books (December 3, 2019) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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