Books and portraits : some further selections from the literary and biographical writings of Virginia Woolf /

Books and portraits : some further selections from the literary and biographical writings of Virginia Woolf / edited and with a pref. by Mary Lyon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941.
Table of Contents:
  • [Part I. Of writing and writers]
  • In the orchard
  • A woman's college from outside
  • On a faithful friend
  • English prose
  • Impressions at Bayreuth
  • Modes and manners of the nineteenth century
  • Men and women
  • Coleridge as critic
  • Patmore's criticism
  • Papers on Pepys
  • Sheridan
  • Thomas Hood
  • Praeterita
  • Mr. Kipling's notebook
  • Emerson's journals
  • Thoreau
  • Herman Melville
  • Rupert Brooke
  • The intellectual imagination
  • These are the plans
  • Mr. Sassoon's poems
  • A Russian schoolboy
  • A glance at Turgenev
  • A giant with very small thumbs
  • Dostoevsky the father
  • More Dostoevsky
  • Dostoevsky in Cranford
  • The Russian background
  • A scribbling dame
  • Maria Edgeworth and her circle
  • Jane Austen and the geese
  • Mrs. Gaskell
  • The compromise
  • Wilcoxiana
  • The genius of Boswell
  • Shelley and Elizabeth Hitchener
  • Literary geography
  • Flumina Amem Silvasque
  • Haworth, November 1904
  • [Part II. Mainly portraits]
  • The girlhood of Queen Elizabeth
  • The diary of a lady in waithing
  • Queen Adelaide
  • Elizabeth Lady Holland
  • Lady Hester Stanhope
  • The memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
  • Lady Strachey
  • John Delane
  • Body and brain.

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