Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original passionate vivid dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. <p/>In this fresh absorbing book Julia Briggs puts the writing back at the center of Woolf's life reads that life through her work and mines the novels themselves to create a compelling new form of biography. Analyzing Woolf's own commen­tary on the creative process through her letters diaries and essays Julia Briggs has produced a book that is a convincing moving portrait of an artist as well as a profound meditation on the nature of creativity. <p/>