![]() ![]() Incorporating newly discovered sources and illustrated with photos and drawings never used before, this biography is a revelation -informed, intelligent and moving. It is a writer's life, illustrating how the concerns of her work arise and develop, and a political life, which establishes Woolf as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist. ![]() ![]() Now, she has taken on her first living subject: Tom Stoppard. This is a vivid, close-up portrait, returning to primary sources, and showing Woolf as occupying a distinct, even uneasy position with 'Bloomsbury'. Hermione Lee on how to write a life Lee is known for her landmark biographies of writers such as Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause and nature of her madness and suicide, the truth about her marriage, her feelings for women, her prejudies and obsessions. This book gives us a vivid sense of the texture of Woolfs daily life - her houses and habits, money and servants, parties and talk. Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Virginia Woolf’s Nose is a witty, eloquent, and funny text by a renowned biographer whose sensitivity to the art of telling a story about a human life is unparalleled and in creating it, Lee articulates and redefines the parameters of her craft. 'Hermione Lee has created a portrait - rich in detail, epic in scope - that lets us know Virginia Woolf as we never have before: how she looked, how she sounded, how she dressed and behaved, how she wrote. ![]()
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