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Virginia Woolf: Interviews and Recollections
This volume provides multi-faceted perspectives on Virginia Woolf as observed and remembered by relatives, close friends, acquaintances and fellow writers. Gathered from scattered sources, the forty-one pieces - some published for the first time - provide an intimate portrait of a fascinating individual who many consider this century's most significant woman writer. This new and varied collection sheds light on the private and public personalities of Virginia Woolf the subtle poetic novelist, the devoted friend and the influential and successful publisher.
211 pages, Paperback
Published December 5, 1994
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April 12, 2022
I enjoyed it so much!!
Also, I must add some quotes to introduce you to how Virginia Woolf really was like:
"I remember going round to have tea with her at No. 52 Tavistock Square. I would climb the rather bleak stone stairs and be let in by the maid half-way up, and when at last at the top, Virginia would be there to welcome me, longlegged, longfingered, and with silver hair escaping about her head...
Leonard would come up from the cellar in which was the office of the Hogarth Press and have tea with us... and Virginia would call him Leo, almost as though she were trying to make me think of him as a noble lion with a mane and then she would banter him through me. 'What shall we make old Leo tell us about?' she would say. 'Has he caught many mice today in the cellar?' (...)"
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"I hadn't realised that she felt she was going to go mad again. We were living close by at the time and I saw her a few days before it happened. I realised that she was under the weather, and she made this tremendous demand for love that she was in the habit of making rather. Particularly, I think, because I was an undemonstrative child, she would quite often say: 'But, Angelica, don't you love me, don't you adore me, you hate me, you know you don't like me at all' - this sort of going on. She did it particularly on that day, and I was particularly cold and undemonstrative, and then the next thing I heard was a telephone call to say that she had drowned herself."
Both of these texts are quotes of Virginia Woolf's niece, Angelica Garnett.
Also, I must add some quotes to introduce you to how Virginia Woolf really was like:
"I remember going round to have tea with her at No. 52 Tavistock Square. I would climb the rather bleak stone stairs and be let in by the maid half-way up, and when at last at the top, Virginia would be there to welcome me, longlegged, longfingered, and with silver hair escaping about her head...
Leonard would come up from the cellar in which was the office of the Hogarth Press and have tea with us... and Virginia would call him Leo, almost as though she were trying to make me think of him as a noble lion with a mane and then she would banter him through me. 'What shall we make old Leo tell us about?' she would say. 'Has he caught many mice today in the cellar?' (...)"
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"I hadn't realised that she felt she was going to go mad again. We were living close by at the time and I saw her a few days before it happened. I realised that she was under the weather, and she made this tremendous demand for love that she was in the habit of making rather. Particularly, I think, because I was an undemonstrative child, she would quite often say: 'But, Angelica, don't you love me, don't you adore me, you hate me, you know you don't like me at all' - this sort of going on. She did it particularly on that day, and I was particularly cold and undemonstrative, and then the next thing I heard was a telephone call to say that she had drowned herself."
Both of these texts are quotes of Virginia Woolf's niece, Angelica Garnett.
February 1, 2020
Insightful and historically important.
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