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Freshwater: A Comedy - Hardcover

Woolf, Virginia

 
9780151334872: Freshwater: A Comedy

Synopsis

Virginia Woolf's only play-a hilarious farce taken from the life of her great-aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, the famous Victorian photographer. It was first performed at Vanessa Bell's London studio in 1935 as one of Bloomsbury's theatrical evenings and later, in New York, in a star-studded French production. Edited and with a Preface by Lucio P. Ruotolo; drawings by Edward Gorey.

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Synopsis

Presents the 1935 performance version and the original 1923 version of a play that pokes fun at Virginia Woolf's great-aunt Julia Cameron, the Victorian photographer who with her husband founded an art colony on the Isle of Wight.

About the Author

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882 1941) wasone 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.

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