Virginia Woolf (Lives)

Virginia Woolf (Lives)

by Nigel Nicolson MBE (Author)

Synopsis

Virginia Woolf was undoubtedly one of the literary giants of the twentieth century. She was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, and her writings were works of astonishing originality. Nigel Nicolson is the son of Vita Sackville-West, who was Virginia Woolf's most intimate friend, and for a short time her lover. He spent many days in her company and he has threaded his recollections of her throughout this unique narrative of her life. 'As a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively brief book could hardly be bettered and achieves high status instantly as a significant work of reference in its own right' The Times

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 07 Jun 2001

ISBN 10: 0753811472
ISBN 13: 9780753811474
Book Overview: An affectionate, but not uncritical biography of one of the most remarkable women of her age Nigel Nicolson knew Virginia Woolf well when he was a child - his family was close friends with Virginia and Leonard Woolf Nigel Nicolson's mother, Vita Sackville-West, was the lover of Virginia Woolf Nigel Nicolson's biography of his parents, PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE is now a modern classic with over 500,000 copies sold in paperback Author's bestselling track record on all things Bloomsbury Serialisation in national newspaper on hardback publication Nigel Nicolson won the Whitbread Prize for his biography of Mary Curzon

Media Reviews
'As a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively brief book could hardly be bettered and achieves high status instantly as a significant work of reference in its own right' The Times
Author Bio
Nigel Nicolson is the son of the politician, diarist and biographer Harold Nicolson, and the poet and writer Vita Sackville-West who restored Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, now a property of the National Trust. The family were close friends with Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Nicolson was the co-founder of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, was a Conservative MP in the 1950s and is the author of fifteen previous books.