On Women and Writing - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

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ISBN 10: 0704338394 ISBN 13: 9780704338395

Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd, 2001

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This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, offering appraisals of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollestonecraft, the Duchess of Newcastle, Dorothy Richardson, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield among others. Gathered too are her timeless commentaries on subjects ranging from "The Intellectual Status of Women" and "Professions for Women" to "Indiscretions".

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"The most brilliant pamphleteer in England" - Times Literary Supplement

Novelist, modernist and central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf was also highly respected as both an essayist and critic, with a special commitment to contemporary literature generally, and women's writing in particular.

Gathered here is a unique and vivid collection of her critical work - essays, reviews, columns, letters and previously unpublished journal extracts - that does justice to her reputation. On offer are unusual appraisals of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstencraft, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield, amongst many others. In addition there are timeless commentaries on issues such as "Women and Fiction", "Professions for Women" and "The Intellectual Status of Women".

Distinguished scholar Michele Barrett has brought together writings previously scattered throughout many texts and many volumes, affording these incisive and profound pieces the collective distinction they deserve.

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