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Virginia Woolf

Hermione Lee

Start date: February 1, 2018

Finish date: April 12, 2018

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Why we're reading this: Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee is a very long book, so we are intending to read it over ten weeks, beginn…more
[close] Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee is a very long book, so we are intending to read it over ten weeks, beginning in February 2018 and reading four chapters a week.

This is an additional Buddy Read, but members are welcome to join in - or, indeed, to read a different biography of Virginia Woolf alongside this one.

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Mar 18, 2018 Susan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is a biography of great depth and detail, which left me feeling that I understood Virginia Woolf far more than I had before I started it. However, Lee questions how exactly should she write Virginia Woolf’s biography? As a victim, through her family history, class, as part of the Bloomsbury group? For she can be seen in many ways, through many different aspects of her personality or life. Where I think Lee succeeds, is to look at Virginia Woolf objectively, but sympathetically – putting her ...more

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Mar 20, 2018 Val rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I unfortunately had to return this book to the library unfinished, as I was going to be away when it was due back and I could not renew it a second time. It is a very detailed biography and a learnt a lot about Virginia from it, without feeling that I was being overwhelmed by the author's research. I liked that a lot of the information came from Virginia's own writing, which Hermione Lee analysed and put into context.
I found that I did not like Virginia much, so I am not sure whether to borrow t ...more

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