Virginia Woolf

In the public eye, Virginia Woolf is often portrayed as either a frigid, fragile female writer or an artificial aesthete detached from the real world. Through Woolf's novels, diaries, and letters, Lindell Gordon reconstructs a different Woolf: a vigorous walker, a hardworking professional writer, and above all, a "e;tireless explorer"e; of "e;the strange and wonderful aspects of the human condition."e; Rather than a conventional linear biography, Lindell Gordon seeks to trace, as exhaustively as authenticity permits, the continuous flow of memory and imagination throughout Woolf's life. She argues that this biographical approach was Woolf's own invention and practice, rooted in a revolutionary historical perspective that values the unnamed. Originally published in 1984, Gordon revised the work in 2006 based on new materials and a feminist perspective for the new century. This translation is based on the 2006 revised edition.