Becoming Virginia Woolf
Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read

Barbara Lounsberry (Author)

9780813061399

Paperback / softback, published 30 July 2015

272 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.333 kg

In the passionate diary-reader we find here, Barbara Lounsberry has brought to life one more Virginia Woolf" - Times Literary Supplement

Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf's first palm-sized leather diary, Becoming Virginia Woolf illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers, Mary Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson Sir Walter Scott and Fanny Burney. These key literary connections open a new and indispensable window onto the story of one of literature's most renowned modernists.