Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586073264 ISBN 13: 9780586073261

Publisher: Grafton, 1989

Synopsis

Published years after her death, "Moments of Being" is Virginia Woolf s only autobiographical writing, considered by many to be her most important book.

In Reminiscences, the first of five pieces included in "Moments of Being," Woolf focuses on the death of her mother, the greatest disaster that could happen, and its effect on her father, a demanding Victorian patriarch who played a crucial role in her development as an individual and a writer. Three of the essays she wrote for the purpose of reading at the Memoir Club, a postwar regrouping of Bloomsbury, and A Sketch of the Past the last and longest of the five essays, gives an account of Woolf's early years in her family's household at 22 Hyde Park Gate.
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Review:

"One might think, from the heaps of books, that the bones of Bloomsbury had been by now well and truly disinterred...But one would be wrong, for Moments of Being is a real delight" (Jan Marsh Daily Telegraph)

"Of fascinating importance, because they are Virginia's only known autobiographical writings" (John Lehmann Sunday Telegraph)

"The book must appeal to anyone interested in Virginia Woolf and her circle" (Derek Parker The Times)

"Her manner of recall contains all those surprises and felicities of language we have come to expect when she writes, as it were, with her elbows on the table" (Richard Shone Spectator)

Book Description:

'This is by far the most important book about Virginia Woolf that has appeared since her death.' Angus Wilson, Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Grafton
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0586073264
• ISBN 13: 9780586073261
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Schulkind Jeanne