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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A two-volume biography of the noted English modernist writer, bound together in a single volume. Vol. 1 describes the life of Virginia Stephen from to prior to her marriage to Leonard Woolf, with a section of black & white plates and family tree. Vol. 2 covers the years , with another section of photos and index to both volumes. Each part with appended further writings and chronologies. This work originally published in two separate volumes in the UK by the Hogarth Press. The author, Quentin Bell, was a nephew of Virginia Woolf. In full brown cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket features photographic portraits of Ms. Woolf to both front and back panels. With prior owner's blacked-over info. to front free endpaper, foxing to textblock edges; else a tightly-bound, intact copy. Fair-only, unclipped dust jacket with several open tears, chips and yellowing to front panel, remains mostly intact and
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Virginia Woolf: A Biography
In , at the invitation of Leonard Woolf, Quentin Bell wrote an historical biography of his aunt Virginia Woolf. Perhaps because Quentin and Virginia enjoyed a close familial relationship, his narrative does not recognize Woolf&#;s erotic life. In fact, Quentin thought &#;the erotic element in her personality was faint and tenuous.&#; He supported the stereotype of Woolf as frigid and detached from the world: &#;there was, both in her personality and in her art, a disconcertingly aetherial quality.&#; However, Quentin was the first family member to publicly support Virginia&#;s claim that she was sexually molested by her half-brother George Duckworth.
Virginia Woolf&#;s diaries and letters provide the reader with firsthand information about her life. Anne Olivier Bell (Quentin&#;s wife) edited five volumes of Virginia Woolf&#;s diaries () and Nigel Nicolson (Vita Sackville-West&#;s youngest son) edited six volumes of Virginia Woolf&#;s letters ().
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Virginia Woolf&#;s Never-Before-Seen Witty Family Newspaper, Illustrated by Her Nephew, Quentin Bell
In , with her greatest works still ahead of her, Virginia Woolf was asked to contribute to a small family newspaper which her teenage nephews, Julian and Quentin Bell &#; sons of Woolf&#;s sister, the prominent Bloomsbury Group artist Vanessa Bell, whose woodcuts graced some of Virginia&#;s books &#; had dreamt up. But instead of a one-off submission, she joined forces with the boys and the trio began publishing The Charleston Bulletin &#; booklets of stories and sketches announced within the household as Supplements, written bygd Woolf, illustrated by ung Quentin, and covering the family&#;s ordeals with irreverent wit and insidery humor. (It was there that Woolf&#;s little-known children&#;s story, The Widow and the Parrot, first appeared.) But the newspaper lay dormant in the Bell family archives for nearly a century, until it was at gods transcribed in full and released as