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Taking family, friends and servants as her subjects, Virginia Woolf here presents a series of impressions of the people around her. And as she describes their lives - including an in-depth piece on her nephew Julian Bell, and sketches on Bloomsbury figures Lady Ottoline Morrell and Lady Strachey - she also reveals much about her own attitudes - to the War, to her writing, and to education. The result is a fascinating and revealing work that will crucially augment what is currently available of her biographical writings.

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Brings together material either scattered through other collections or, in some cases, not republished since their first appearance . . . a most welcome complement to the longer pieces collected in Moments of Being. --The Year's Work in English Studies Absorbing . . . Published here in full for the first time are a talk Woolf gave on her part in the 1910 Dreadnought Hoax, and a memoir of Rupert Brooke, written for the TLS. Perceptive and thoughtful, this book illuminates one of the 20th century's most innovative writers. --The Good Book Guide You get a feel for the atmosphere of the time and the Bloomsbury Group . . . an interesting book if you want to know more about this particular group of writers and artists without having to wade through a lengthy volume. --New Books magazine Recommended. --Choice

Brings together material either scattered through other collections or, in some cases, not republished since their first appearance. . .a most welcome complement to the longer pieces collected in Moments of Being. The Year's Work in English Studies

Absorbing . . . Published here in full for the first time are a talk Woolf gave on her part in the 1910 Dreadnought Hoax, and a memoir of Rupert Brooke, written for the TLS. Perceptive and thoughtful, this book illuminates one of the 20th century's most innovative writers. --The Good Book Guide Recommended. --Choice Brings together material either scattered through other collections or, in some cases, not republished since their first appearance . . . a most welcome complement to the longer pieces collected in Moments of Being. --The Year's Work in English Studies You get a feel for the atmosphere of the time and the Bloomsbury Group . . . an interesting book if you want to know more about this particular group of writers and artists without having to wade through a lengthy volume. --New Books magazine

You get a feel for the atmosphere of the time and the Bloomsbury Group . . . an interesting book if you want to know more about this particular group of writers and artists without having to wade through a lengthy volume. -- New Books magazine

Brings together material either scattered through other collections or, in some cases, not republished since their first appearance . . . a most welcome complement to the longer pieces collected in Moments of Being. -- The Year's Work in English Studies

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Most famous for her novels 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'To The Lighthouse', Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is one of the foremost innovative writers of the twentieth century.

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