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Becoming Virginia Woolf - Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read (Hardcover)
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Becoming Virginia Woolf - Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read (Hardcover)
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"Explores the history of Woolf's diaries, not only to reveal
heretofore unremarked sources but also to trace her evolving sense
of possibilities in diary-writing, possibilities which helped shape
Woolf as a fiction writer. A must-read for devotees of Virginia
Woolf."--Panthea Reid, author of "Art and Affection: A Life of
Virginia Woolf" "This revealing book gives us a diarist with
greater literary range than Pepys and affords us a second pleasure:
the infinitely varied voices of the diaries Virginia read. They
fascinate us as they fascinate her: those writers who encouraged,
warned, comforted, and trained a developing genius."--Nancy Price,
author of "Sleeping with the Enemy" "Lounsberry's deeply researched
and gracefully written book shows not only Woolf's development into
a great diarist but also her evolvement into the fiction and
nonfiction writer revered today."--Gay Talese, author of "A
Writer's Life" Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes,
Virginia Woolf's diary is her lengthiest and longest-sustained
work--and her last to reach the public. In the only full-length
book to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching
masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf's development as a
writer through her first twelve diaries--a fascinating experimental
stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf's pioneering modernist
style can be seen.
Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf's first palm-sized leather
diary, "Becoming Virginia Woolf" illuminates how her private and
public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including
Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers, Mary
Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Woolf's "diary parents"--Sir
Walter Scott and Fanny Burney. These key literary connections open
a new and indispensable window onto the story of one of
literature's most renowned modernists.
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