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Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf's first palm-sized leather diary, Becoming Virginia Woolf illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers, Mary Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson Sir Walter Scott and Fanny Burney. These key literary connections open a new and indispensable window onto the story of one of literature's most renowned modernists.

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[A] vital study. Choice

A significant contribution to the discussion of Woolf s work. It helps us understand Woolf s development as a writer in a way that sees experimentation (and any imperfections that occur in experimentation) as an important part of her development rather than seeing them as failures. English Literature in Transition

"In the passionate diary-reader we find here, Barbara Lounsberry has brought to life one more Virginia Woolf"" - Times Literary Supplement"

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Barbara Lounsberry is professor emerita of English at the University of Northern Iowa, USA. She is editor of The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction and coeditor of Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality.

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