Book · 1996 · Nonfiction

Virginia Woolf

Name: Virginia Woolf
Author: Hermione Lee

Vintage (Penguin Random House) · 944 pages

★ 5.3 editorial score

Lee refuses the fragile madwoman of legend and gives back a working writer: funny, ambitious, hard on her friends. She holds the breakdowns and the novels together and lets neither explain the other.

Genre

Biography Modernism Feminism

Medium

Biography

Subject

Literature Women Writers

Setting

London

Time

1996Depicts 20th century

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