As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia Woolf's family and childhood; her earliest writings; the formation of the Bloomsbury Group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental breakdown of the years 1912-15; the origins and growth of the Hogarth Press; her friendships with T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield and Vita Sackvill-West; her struggles to write The Waves and The Years; and the political and personal distresses of her last decade.
Compelling, moving and entertaining, Quentin Bell's biography was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. It is a fitting tribute to a remarkable and complex woman, one of the greatest writers of the century.
- ISBN10 0701208465
- ISBN13 9780701208462
- Publish Date 30 July 1990 (first published 15 April 1976)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 316
- Language English