Granite and rainbow: the hidden life of Virginia Woolf

LEASKA, Mitchell

Biographies & Memoirs

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Traces the life of the English novelist, including the harsh realities of her early life, her descent into madness, and her parents' troubled marriage

Granite and Rainbow: The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) once mused that no biographer had ever been "subtle enough and bold enough to present that queer amalgamation of dream and reality, that perpetual marriage of granite and rainbow" that is an artist's life. Noted Woolf scholar Mitchell Leaska has now answered this daunting challenge in an uncompromising, deeply informed biography filled with new insights and fresh revelations. In addition to examining her crucial role in Hogarth Press, which published works by T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Sigmund Freud, and Katherine Mansfield, Leaska recounts the hard realities of Woolf's life and how she transformed them in her iridescent novels, essays, letters, and diaries.

Granite and Rainbow

Arts & Literature

Cooper Square Press

Novels of Virginia Woolf from Beginning to End

Univ Pubns

After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began an intense and passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf’s death in 1941. In their correspondence, the women leave no aspect of their lives untouched: they record daily dramas, bits of gossip, the strains and pleasures of writing, and their mutual joy in each other’s company. This edition includes over 500 letters spanning 20 years; features 25 photographs, eight new to this edition; and has a new introduction and bibliography.

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita

Louise De Salvo

Cleis Press

The Novels of Virginia Woolf From Beginning to End

Weidenfeld & Nicolson London

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