Fascinating, a great biography of Woolf and a breakdown of her novels. An excellent tool for research and further study of he work.

A wonderful, insightful read!!

I read this in a very short space of time as I was off work with migraines and thankfully still able to read. I previously knew almost nothing about Woolf aside from her suicide and had hoped for a biography in a truer sense than this which is more an attempt to set a 'lit crit' analysis in the context of the writer's life and times. It was nonetheless interesting and I both learnt a lot and came away with a lot of questions and other things I'd like to read, which I think is a sign of a valuable bit of reading. Some of the writing is frankly unnecessarily dense as others have said and i I found the use of the notes quite strange - many of them seem to me to convey valuable points that should have been in the main text but perhaps that is just my love of ephemera. About halfway through I looked up the writer and the style makes a lot more sense knowing that she was a literature professor (who also sounds like a very interesting person). I am glad to have read this but will probably seek out another more traditional biography in the future, but something lighter first!

This is not a full biography by any means, but is wonderfully, thoughtfully and carefully dedicated toward following the emotional and intellectual life of Woolf as it merged with each of her works. A dream to read. I will keep this book close. The insights into her process were exciting to read; I will be applying some to the draft of my novel I'm working on now.