![]() ![]() ![]() Last year, James King of McMaster University did a fine literary biography for Norton, “Virginia Woolf,” that analyzed the author’s work and life, her fascination with death and as King said, her “greatest creation, herself.” Just a few months ago, Panthea Reid published another biography, “Art And Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf” with Oxford University Press. Her biography of Woolf is scholarly, familiar and capacious. ![]() Lee gives a thumping affirmation to Woolf’s statement about “life-writing” - that is, relating life to biography. In the last twelve months, three fine biographies of Virginia Woolf have appeared and this latest, Hermione Lee’s, is best. – Biographer Hermione Lee augmenting Virginia Woolf’s view. “ … in biography and autobiography there must be a relation between the obscure areas of personality - the “soul” - and forces like class and social pressures otherwise “how futile life-writing becomes.” ![]()
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