Woman of Letters: The Life of Virginia Woolf

by Phyllis Rose

Viewing Woolf's feminism as the core of her emotional and intellectual life, this interpretive biography reveals connections between the disturbing substance of her life and her works and illuminates her concern with the problems of identity

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Phyllis Rose is an American literary critic, essayist, biographer, and educator.

She lives in Connecticut with her husband, writer and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff

Reviews

[Karla Huebner]

This is not a new biography of Woolf, but it provides a sensitive and fascinating look at her life and development via the themes in her novels, without assuming that the novels are autobiographical.

[Will]

Woolf just can't be adequately approached in as few pages as this, but Phyllis Rose is a perceptive enough biographer to make it worthwhile. Still, the title is misleading. Rose interprets Woolf's life through some of her novels (almost entirely The Voyage Out, Mrs. Dalloway, and To the Lighthouse), not her letters and essays.

[EmiliaC]

What a wonderful read. A new take on Virginia Woolf life seen through her books. loved it