This collection offers an intimate journey into the mind and life of a seminal modernist writer. It charts the evolution of her thought, her creative process, and the personal struggles that shaped her unique voice. Readers will discover a comprehensive portrait of a woman who not only wrote but deeply lived her literary ideals.
1888-1912 - Originally Published In England As The Flight Of The Mind
A collection of Virginia Woolf's correspondence from age six to the eve of her marriage twenty-four years later. "Engagingly fresh and spontaneous as young Virginia's letters are...the excitement in this collection arises from [her] growing awareness of herself as a writer" (Chicago Sun-Times). Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index; photographs.
First published under title: The question of things happening : the letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. II: 1912-1922.
The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1923-1928
These years were dominated by one woman and one book. The woman was Ethel Smyth; the book was The Waves.
These years were dominated by one woman and one book. The woman was Ethel Smyth; the book was The Waves. This volume's "unerringly human and confessional tone makes Woolf, at last, a real person" (San Francisco Chronicle). Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index; photographs.
The penultimate volume of Woolf's letters, when the author was between the ages of 50 and 53, covers the composition of the Years and the death of Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry. "Her wit flashes, often unexpectedly, in letters of almost every kind" (New Yorker). Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index.
The last volume of Virginia Woolf's "Collected Letters" runs from 1936, when she was finishing "The Waves", to 1941, when she drowned herself. But there is little or no shadow of impending tragedy over her sparkling correspondence with Vanessa, Vita, Ethel Smyth and her many other friends.