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Becoming Virginia Woolf : Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read /

Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf's diary is her longest work, her longest sustained, and last work to reach the public. In the only full-length work to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf's developme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lounsberry, Barbara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Early Diary Influences: Virginia Woolf's 1897 diary; Sir Walter Scott's "gurnal"; Fanny Burney's diary; Samuel Pepys's diary; William Johnson Cory's Journals; Virginia Woolf's 1897 diary concluded
  • 2. The Experimenter: Virginia Woolf's 1899 warboys diary
  • 3. Choosing the Outsider Role: Virginia Woolf's 1903 diary; James Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.
  • 4. Professional Writer: Virginia Woolf's 1904-1905 diary
  • 5. Embracing the Unconscious: Virginia's Woolf's ghostly 1905 Cornwall diary; Virginia Woolf's 1906-1908 Great Britain travel diary; William Allingham's Diary; Lady Dorothy Nevill's Note-books; Lady Charlotte Bury's Diary of a lady-in-waiting; Virginia Woolf's Great Britain travel diary concluded
  • 6. The Problem of Description: Virginia Woolf's 1906-1909 continental travel diary; The Journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland; Virginia Woolf's continental travel diary concluded; Virginia Woolf's 1909 life diary; Dr. Charles Meryon's diaries celebrating Lady Hester Stanhope; Ralph Waldo Emerson's early Journals; Mary Coleridge's diary
  • 7. The Diary Coalesces: Virginia Woolf's 1915 diary; Mary Berry's Journals; Virginia Woolf's Asheham House natural history diary: 1917-1918; Virginia Woolf's 1917-1918 collaborative Hogarth House diary; The Journals of Edmond and Jules de Goncourt; Stopford Brooke's diary; Virginia Woolf's 1918 coalescing Hogarth House diary: January 4-July 23
  • Epilogue.