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Melymbrosia: A Novel
Virginia Woolf completed her first novel, Melymbrosia, in 1912. The story concerned the emotional and sexual awakening of a young Englishwoman traveling abroad and bristled with social commentary on homosexuality, the suffrage movement, and colonialism. Woolf was warned, however, that publishing an outspoken indictment of Britain could prove disastrous to her fledgling car...more
Paperback, 372 pages
Published
September 27th 2004
by Cleis Press
(first published 1981)
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Melymbrosia: A Novel
by Virginia Woolf, Louise DeSalvo
by Virginia Woolf, Louise DeSalvo
Dipping into Melymbrosia feels as exciting and forbidden as prying open the door to a writer's study and sneaking a look inside her dusty notebooks. T…more
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Now, I don't usually write reviews of the books I read (thought maybe I should start?) but after finishing Melymbrosia, I felt that I needed to mention it.
This book is yet another reason why I love Virginia Woolf. It remained in manuscript form for many years after Woolf's death, who chose, upon advice from those around her, to tone down certain themes she had included - feminism, homosexuality, social critique, etc, and mould it into The Voyage Out (1915), and has admirably been put back togeth...more
This book is yet another reason why I love Virginia Woolf. It remained in manuscript form for many years after Woolf's death, who chose, upon advice from those around her, to tone down certain themes she had included - feminism, homosexuality, social critique, etc, and mould it into The Voyage Out (1915), and has admirably been put back togeth...more
As I menioned in my blog http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
Virginia and I go way back. I have read a number of her books including Moments of Being, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own, all a while ago but I don't remember her writing ever being so vivid as in this novel. For instance here is a wonderful passage:
"It was as though the room was instantly flooded with water. After a moment's hesitation first one couple, then another, leapt into midstream and went around and around in th...more
Virginia and I go way back. I have read a number of her books including Moments of Being, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own, all a while ago but I don't remember her writing ever being so vivid as in this novel. For instance here is a wonderful passage:
"It was as though the room was instantly flooded with water. After a moment's hesitation first one couple, then another, leapt into midstream and went around and around in th...more
From all that I had heard of this books' progressive treatment of sexuality, feminism, colonialism, etc I had expected a very different novel. In the past I have admired Woolf's virtuoso skill, but found it hard to really love her staid closed-off-ness. Subtle she is, depressed obviously, and I can appreciate these qualities, but there is something in her writing that won't really let you in. This story is a preliminary sketch of what would later be published as The Voyage Out. I appreciate its...more
It's a first draft, so there's some clunky bits. Overall, though, the writing and characters are strong.
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(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length es...more
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During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length es...more
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