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Virginia Woolf

A Literary Life

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  • © 1991

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  1. John Mepham
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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. 1882–1903: Virginia Stephen Becomes a Writer

    • John Mepham
    Pages 1-12

  3. 1904–1909: Journalist

    • John Mepham
    Pages 13-29

  4. 1910–15: Moratorium and Crisis

    • John Mepham
    Pages 30-46

  5. 1916–21: A Press of One’s Own

    • John Mepham
    Pages 47-62

  6. 1922–24: Her Own Voice

    • John Mepham
    Pages 63-90

  7. 1925–27: Modernist Fictions

    • John Mepham
    Pages 91-118

  8. 1928–31: Androgyny and the End of the Novel

    • John Mepham
    Pages 119-144

  9. 1932–37: The Outsider

    • John Mepham
    Pages 145-172

  10. 1938–40: Life-Writing

    • John Mepham
    Pages 173-190

  11. 1941: The Illusion Fails

    • John Mepham
    Pages 191-204

  12. Conclusion

    • John Mepham
    Pages 205-207

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 208-222
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In Virginia Woolf's life, writing was the activity that mattered more than anything else: she would not have survived without it. She was her own publisher and had an unusual degree of control over her own work. This enabled her to pursue a career of extraordinary experimentation and inventiveness. It has never been sufficiently stressed that every one of her books was quite different in technique from every other. John Mepham argues that she never settled on one way of writing because she never settled on one view of life. Her purposes as a writer constantly changed. Mepham tells the story of her career as a series of choices and experiments, always grounded in specific historical contexts.

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'Mepham has produced a book likely to help any reader towards a more perceptive and rewarding reading of Woolf' - Bernard Harrison, Times Literary Supplement

'...highly informative and insightful...' - Jeanne Dubino, Virginia Woolf Miscellany

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