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Author Marder, Herbert

Title The measure of life : Virginia Woolf's last years / Herbert Marder
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 418 pages) : illustrations
Contents Prelude: The Shapes a Mind Holds -- Human Nature Undressed -- A Taste of Salt -- Lady Rosebery's Party -- God's Fist -- Ghosts: The Empty Room -- Ghosts: From the Acropolis -- Anonymity and Rhythm -- The Firing of Nelly Boxall -- Acts in a Play -- On Being Despised -- Slow Motion: The Years -- An Inch of the Pattern: The Years -- Antigone's Daughters -- A Purple Background -- To the Altar -- Weeping Willie -- Oblivion and Water -- Time Passes -- The Wilberforce Letters
Summary "This biography tells the story of Virginia Woolf's last ten years, from the creation of her great visionary novel, The Waves, to her suicide in 1941. Herbert Marder looks closely at Woolf's views on totalitarianism and her depictions of Britain under siege to create a remarkable portrait of a mature and renowned writer during a time of rising fascist violence." "The Measure of Life suggests that Woolf anticipated her suicide, and indeed enacted it symbolically many times before the event. Marder's account of her death emphasizes the importance of her relationship with her doctor and distant cousin, Octavia Wilberforce. Wilberforce's letters about Woolf's last months, including some previously unpublished passages, appear in the appendix." "Staying close to the spirit of Woolf's own writing, Marder traces her evolving social consciousness in the 1930s, connecting her growing concern with politics and social history with the facts of her daily life. He stresses her endurance as a working writer, and explores her friendships, her complex relations with servants, and her activities at the Hogarth Press."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-406) and index
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Subject Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Last years
SUBJECT Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Last years
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. fast (OCoLC)fst00033879
Woolf, Virginia. swd
Subject Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
Last years of a person's life.
Novelists, English.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501728464
1501728466