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Virginia Woolf's nose : essays on biography by Hermione Lee; Virginia Woolf is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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What choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate likeness of a private life from the few articles that linger after death? How do we choose what gets left out? This intriguing and witty collection of essays by an internationally acclaimed biographer looks at how biography deals with myths and legends, what goes missing and what can't be proved in the story of a life. Virginia Woolf's Nose presents a variety of case-studies, in which literary biographers are faced with gaps and absences, unprovable stories and ambiguities surrounding their subjects. By looking at stories about Percy Bysshe Shelley's shriveled, burnt heart found pressed between the pages of a book, Jane Austen's fainting spell, Samuel Pepys's lobsters, and the varied versions of Virginia Woolf's life and death, preeminent biographer Hermione Lee considers how biographers deal with and often utilize these missing body parts, myths, and contested data to "fill in the gaps" of a life story.

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Author

Hermione Lee; Virginia Woolf

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691120324

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.23 / 5 (44 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14