Literary Figures - Women's Biography, English, Irish, Scottish Women - Literary Biography, British Authors - 20th Century - Literary Biography, European Essays

Books And Portraits

Name: Books And Portraits
Author: Mary Lyon
ISBN: 9780156135603

by Mary Lyon (Editor), Virginia Woolf, Mary Lyon

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Overview

Virginia Woolf's reputation as a novelist tends to overshadow her significance as a literary critic. Her first published works, however, were reviews or critical essays, and she continued to write literary criticism until her death. Only the two volumes of The Common Reader were published during her lifetime. Five additional volumes of essays were published posthumously. After the last appeared, in 1965, research uncovered well over a hundred more uncollected articles. From these Mary Lyon chose forty-eight that seemed, from both the reader's and the scholar's point of view, most important to preserve. Many were written when Virginia was still in her twenties, but from the very beginning her literary judgment was sure and her style distinctive.

Synopsis

Forty-eight essays from the literary and biographical writings. Selected, edited, and with a Preface by Mary Lyon.

About the Author, Mary Lyon

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels.