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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title. In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929 - what is often considered Woolf's modernist “golden age”.
Trade ReviewMeticulously researched and beautifully written, this volume is a love letter for all scholars of Woolf and modernism, and for neophytes interested in the aegis of Woolf's distinctive style. Essential."" -
Choice""An ambitious project that significantly advances our understanding of Woolf's development as a diarist and a professional writer."" -
English Literature in Transition""Lounsberry's years of meditation on her material can be felt. . . . In the passionate diary-reader we find here, Barbara Lounsberry has brought to life one more Virginia Woolf."" -
Times Literary Supplement""Convincingly situates the diary as an integral part of Woolf's developing modernist aesthetic, and as a work worthy of study in its own right."" -
Woolf Studies Annual
