VIRGINIA WOOLF ON WOMEN AND WRITING
Her essays, assessments and arguments
selected and introduced by Michele Barrett
£8.99
Novelist, modernist and central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf was also highly respected as both and essayist and critic, with a special commitment to contemporary literature generally, and women's writing in particular.
Gathered here is a unique and vivid collection of her critical work - essays, reviews, columns, letters and previously unpublished journal extracts - that does justice to her reputation. On offer are unusual appraisals of Aphra behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield, amongst many others. In addition there are timeless comentaries on issues such as 'Women and Fiction', 'Professions for Women' and 'The Intellectual Status of Women'.
Virginia Woolf
was born in London in 1882. She was educated at home and in 1904 began a career in literary journalism. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and her subsequent works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves. Her last novel, Between the Acts, was published after her death, at the age of 59, in 1941.
Michele Barrett
who has selected and introduced this volume, is a sociologist rather than a literary critic. She teaches in the Department of Social Science and Humanities at The City University in London, has written Women's Oppression Today and, with Mary McIntosh, The Anti-Social Family. She is co-editor of The Politics of Diversity and is a member of the Feminist Review Collective.
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