Pointz Hall: The Earlier And Later Typescripts Of Between The Acts

by Virginia Woolf

576 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

(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 essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Reviews

[Elisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This immense collation of the typescripts of Pointz Hall -- the original name for Virginia Woolf's last novel Between the Acts -- is one of those almost incomprehensibly detailed editorial endeavors for which subsequent scholars like me are eternally grateful. The chance to watch Woolf write and rewrite passage after passage provides such insight into her creative process and shows so much about her intentions in writing. Nothing like being able to see "a mind at work."