Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

by JuliaBriggs (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $3.49

  Virgina Woolf is the greatest of all British women writers and one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century writing. She was a novelist utterly immersed in books, wholly original, passionate, vivid and with a steely dedication to her art. Yet given that what we value about Woolf's life is her nine great novels, most writing about her tends to revolve around her social life and the planet of the Bloomsbury set. Julia Briggs' aim in this fresh, absorbing new book is to put the writing back absolutely at the centre of Woolf's life; to read that life through her books, using the novels themselves to create a compelling new form of biography. Using Woolf's own matchless commentary on the creative process through her letters, diaries and essays, Julia Briggs has produced a book which is a convincing, moving picture of an artist at full stretch, but also a brilliant meditation on the whole nature of creativity.

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $3.49

  One of the most original and influential figures in twentieth century literature, Virginia Woolf has paradoxically become known as much for her personality as her writing. In this new biography Julia Briggs gets back to the Virginia Woolf the writer. Structured around Woolf's major novels and the creative process behind them, Briggs tells the story of Virginia Woolf's life through her books to give a new insight into her literary genius and how some of the most important works of the twentieth century were created.