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Virginia Woolf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 783

Virginia Woolf

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-04-27
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

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.

A Woman of Passion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

A Woman of Passion

In A Woman of Passion, Julia Briggs chronicles the life of author Edith Nesbit who is credited with being the first modern writer for children and the creator of the children's adventure story. Nesbit recorded her life with varying degrees of honesty in verse and prose, and while she seldom wrote entirely openly of her own experiences, she seldom wrote convincingly of anything else. In this fascinating read, Julia Briggs attempts to fill in the gaps of Nesbit's autobiographical material, painting an intriguing portrait of the famous author.

This Stage-play World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

This Stage-play World

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Popular Children's Literature in Britain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Popular Children's Literature in Britain

Responding to the astonishing success of J. K. Rowling and other contemporary authors, the editors of this timely volume take up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have generated, and sometimes sustained, the popularity of children's books. Ranging from eighteenth-century chapbooks to the stories of Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl, and from science schoolbooks to Harry Potter, these essays show how authorial talent operates within its cultural context to make a children's classic.

Virginia Woolf's Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Virginia Woolf's Women

This biography is to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational female friendships with the key women in her life. Curtis looks both at the effect of these relationships on her emotional life and the inspiration that each woman provided for the female protagonists in her fiction. The author begins by exposing the lesser-known details of Woolf's Victorian childhood, and continues with a study of the other unique women in Woolf's life: her sister Vanessa Bell; artist Dora Carrington; writer Katherine Mansfield; novelist Vita Sackville-West; and militant composer Ethel Smyth.

Virginia Woolf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 446

Virginia Woolf

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Reading Virginia Woolf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Reading Virginia Woolf

The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings is at the heart of this book by a highly respected Woolf critic and biographer. Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf's work--from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, 'The Symbol', and from the most to the least familiar of her novels--from a series of highly imaginative and unexpected angles. Individual essays analyse Woolf's neglected second novel, Night and Day and investigate her links with other writers (Byron, Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to 'Englishness' and to censorship, her fascination with transitional places and moments, with the flow of time (and its relative nature), her concer...

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

A revised and fully updated edition, featuring five new chapters reflecting recent scholarship on Woolf.

Gender in Modernism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 896

Gender in Modernism

Grouped into 21 thematic sections, this collection provides theoretical introductions to the primary texts provided by the scholars who have taken the lead in pushing both modernism and gender in different directions. It provides an understanding of the complex intersections of gender with an array of social identifications.

The Simplicity Principle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Simplicity Principle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-04-03
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  • Publisher: Kogan Page

Learn how to develop a clear and calm way to be more creative, gain greater focus and reclaim productivity.