by Virginia Woolf (Author)
Virginia Woolf had a lively sense of place and delighted in 'lighting accidentally...upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Following Virginia's footprints from her beloved Sussex and Cornwall to wartime London, Italy and the Riviera to Greek mountains and the wilds of Spain, Jan Morris intersperses swift verbal sketches of a Greek peasant wedding, a fenland sky, an elderly spinster in a hotel dining room in Italy, or Bognor pier in the rain with her own brief, telling comments on both writer and subject.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 03 Jul 1997
ISBN 10: 0712673733
ISBN 13: 9780712673730
Book Overview: Extracts from Virginia Woolf's diaries and journals, correspondence and rare travel essays are collected here, vividly recording the places she loved, visited and worked in.