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While Virginia Woolf — one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers — has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Virginia Woolf: Add a description of this character.
- Leonard Woolf
- Vanessa Bell
- Thoby Stephen
- Vita
- Leslie Stephen
- Ethel Smyth
- Clive Bell
- Julian
- Bloomsbury
- Duncan Grant
- Ottoline
- Adrian
- Roger Fry
- George Duckworth
- Katherine
- Lytton Strachey
- Angelica
- Mrs Dalloway
- Quentin Bell
- Stella
- Mary
- Mrs Ramsay
- Eliot
- Laura
- Harold
- Hitler
- Forster
- Tom
- John Lehmann
- Stephens
- Maynard
- James
- Carrington
- Murry
- Ralph
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- Richmond, England
- England
- Orlando
- Cambridge
- Rodmell
- France
- Charleston
- Hyde Park Gate
- Virginia Stephen
- Greece
- Cornwall
- Germany
- Gordon Square
- Paris
- Garsington
- Britain
- South Kensington
- Europe
- Ceylon
- America
- Brighton
- Spain
- Asheham
- Three Guineas
- Lewes
- India
- Italy
- Rome
- Sussex
- Talland House
- Ireland
- Hampstead
- Berlin
- Monk
- Tavistock Square
- Coleridge
- Athens
- China
- Studland
- Brunswick Square
- Cassis
- Long Barn
- Oxford
First Sentence edit
"My God, how does one write a Biography?"
Authors & Contributors edit
- Hermione Lee (Author)
Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 1997: Biography/Autobiography)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.912
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