A new edition of Leonard Woolf's satirical second novel, which
offers an intriguing group portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf
and other members of the Bloomsbury Group The Wise Virgins (1914),
Leonard Woolf's second novel, was published two years after the
author's marriage to Virginia Stephen-and begun during their
honeymoon. The autobiographical elements of the book are well
documented. Its publication caused acute distress to Woolf's
family. Leonard's sister, Bella, urged him to bury the novel, while
his mother was shocked and mortified by unflattering portraits of
herself and her neighbors. Two weeks after reading the novel,
Virginia Woolf suffered the worst of her many breakdowns. As aroman
a clef the novel holds considerable interest for its picture of
Leonard and Virginia's courtship, as well as its sketches of
Vanessa Stephen and Clive Bell. (Virginia would later retell the
story, from a much different perspective, in Night and Day.) But
the novel offers the contemporary reader other rewards. It remains
a witty, engaging satire about English society just before World
War I and its conventions and prejudices. In Harry Davis, Woolf
created a memorable Jewish antihero who rails against society's
conventions but tragically finds himself unable to escape them.
Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning contributes a
foreword to this new paperback edition.
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