| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 416 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
General preface: Common reader learning, common reader teaching -- Preface: Common reader learning -- Introduction: Contexts -- Part I: Student, 1882-1904 : learning at home -- Part IIi: Teacher, 1905-1907 : Teaching at Morley College -- Part III: Apprentice, 1904-1912 : writing for newspapers -- Conclusion: Implications -- Appendices. Appendix I: Virginia Stephen's King's College Department for Ladies class schedule ; Appendix II: Virginia Stephen's library ; Appendix 3: Virginia Stephen's Morley College teaching schedule ; Appendix 4: Virginia Stephen's lecture ; Appendix 5: Virginia Stephen's reviews and essays |
| Summary |
This study takes up Woolf's challenge to probe the relationship between education and work, specifically her education and her work as an essayist. It expands her education beyond her father's library to include not only a broader examination of her homeschooling but also her teaching at Morley College and her early book reviewing. It places Virginia Stephen's learning in the historical and cultural contexts of education for women, the working classes and writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Weaving together Virginia Stephen's homeschooling, her teaching and her writing for the newspapers, Beth Rigel Daugherty demonstrates how these three strands shape Virginia Woolf's essay persona, her essays and her relationship with her readers. She also shows why Virginia Stephen's apprenticeship compels Virginia Woolf to become a pedagogical essayist. The volume publishes two holograph draft lectures by Virginia Stephen for the first time and mines rarely used archival materials. It also includes five appendices, one detailing Virginia Stephen's library and another her apprenticeship essays. This is the first in a two-volume study of Virginia Woolf's essays that analyses Virginia Stephen's development and Virginia Woolf's achievements as an essay writer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-392) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 01, 2022) |
| Subject |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge and learning
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| SUBJECT |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast |
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Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
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Learning and scholarship.
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Teaching.
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Women -- Education.
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English essays -- Authorship
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English essays -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
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HISTORY / North America
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Women -- Education
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Teaching
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Novelists, English
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English essays
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Learning and scholarship
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1399504533 |
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9781399504539 |
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