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"DeSalvo's newly edited version of Woolf's first novel gives us a fresh look at an important modernist writer...a vision of Woolf's first novel as she would have preferred it." - Bloomsbury Review "This book is a remarkably fresh read, and is something contemporary readers can easily relate to. By uncovering this important volume, DeSalvo has made a significant contribution to literature." - Associated Press"
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MELYMBROSIA, written between 1909 and 1912, was never published. Instead, three years later, Virginia Woolf published her first book, The Voyage Out, a heavily revised and considerably toned down version of this, her original work. Discovered seventy years later and published in a private scholarly edition (300 copies), MELYMBROSIA was culled from over one thousand manuscript pages over a seven-year period, where seven separate drafts were matched and reordered according to paper type, ink and handwriting, among other considerations. Now, available for the first time to the book trade, Virginia Woolf's first attempt as a writer reveals a far angrier, starker, more feminist and explicitly lesbian perspective than that of The Voyage Out. Comparable to Stephen Hero, the predecessor to James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, this rediscovered novel offers extraordinary insights into Woolf's life as a young woman, bisexual and artist as well as the political limitations of the time period. Its long-overdue publication represents a landmark event for feminists, academics and fans alike.

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  • PublisherCleis Press
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 1573441481
  • ISBN 13 9781573441483
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages280
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1. Virginia Woolf completed her first novel, Melymbrosia, in 1912 when she was thirty years old. The story concerned the emotional and sexual awakening of a young English woman traveling abroad, and bristled with social commentary on issues as varied as homosexuality, the suffrage movement, and colonialism. She was warned by colleagues, however, that publishing an outspoken indictment of Britain could prove disastrous to her fledgling career as a novelist. Moreover, the critical offensive from men would be especially harsh towards a woman author. Woolf thus revised the novel extensively, omitting much of the political candor until, in 1915, the quieter book was published under the title The Voyage Out. The Cleis Press publication of Melymbrosia offers a rare look into the formative mind of the modernist master who revolutionized twentieth century literature. Here, one sees the young Virginia Woolf learning her craft. Like James Joyces Stephen Hero, the original treatment of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, or Ralph Ellisons posthumously published Juneteenth, Melymbrosia is a "lost classic" that owes its existence to the research of a devoted scholar. In this instance, editor and Woolf authority Louise DeSalvo (Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work) spent seven years reviewing more than 1,000 manuscript pages from Woolfs private papers. DeSalvo had no clear markers for proceeding to the finished draft, save for Woolfs remarks on the novels progress, plot, and structure in her diaries. But also, the editor resourcefully relied upon clues among the papers themselves, including color of ink and paper color, where pencil or pen left off and began anew, and even the color of ribbon Woolf used to bundle manuscript pages. In short, the puzzle of Melymbrosia was eventually solved through the ingenuity and persistence of meticulous research. Seller Inventory # DADAX1573441481

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