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. 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.