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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 Wilberforce's Letters About Woolf's Last Months, Including Some Previously Unpublished Passages, Appear In The Appendix.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. Prelude: The Shapes A Mind Holds -- Human Nature Undressed -- A Taste Of Salt

Author

Herbert Marder

Publisher

Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801437298

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography