Virginia Woolf A Literary Life [Paperback]

This book tells the story of Virginia Woolf's literary career. It emphasises the importance of her ownership of the Hogarth Press, whereby she gained the freedom to write as she pleased. This made possible a career of extraordinary formal innovations. Each of her books was unlike every other. Her career was a series of different choices, statements and masks. This book attempts to discover why, at each point in her career, she chose to write as she did.List of Tables - Introduction: The Will to Write - 1882-1903 Virginia Stephen becomes a Writer - 1904-9 Journalist - 1910-15 Moratorium and Crisis - 1916-21 A Press of One's Own - 1922-24 Her Own Voice - 1925-27 Modernist Fictions - 1928-31 Androgyny and the End of the Novel - 1932-37 The Outsider - 1938-40 Life-Writing - 1941 The Illusion Fails - Conclusion - List of Abbreviations - Notes