Titlebook: Virginia Woolf; A Literary Life John Mepham Book 1991 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991 fiction.novel.Vir

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,1882–1903: Virginia Stephen Becomes a Writer,o write in the same way that others might choose to lay bricks or to become doctors. Writing, and specifically the writing of fictions, was already, even when she was very young, essential to her way of being, with her family and in the world. Long before it became a career, writing was already an e

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,1910–15: Moratorium and Crisis,e to live on the income. From 1910 onwards, for this reason but also later because of illness, her journalistic writing was reduced, eventually to zero. She had started to write a novel, .in 1908. She now took this up full-time. It seemed in early 1912 to be almost finished. But then she began to re

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,1916–21: A Press of One’s Own,ible. She was to have a marriage, but it would be without sex. She would not have children. In spite of everything, she and Vanessa remained close. Above all, she had proved herself as a writer. Her career had begun. She was thirty-three and she still had a very long way to go before she would find

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,1922–24: Her Own Voice,ia Woolf was known only for two works, .and the story The Mark on the Wall’ (E III xi). With very few exceptions all her other writing had been anonymous. .did not do much for her reputation, but the volume of eight stories and other short pieces, .was well received when it was published in 1921. Re

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,1928–31: Androgyny and the End of the Novel,and personality which had seemed to most previous writers to be of greatest importance. Forster, for example, for all his appreciation of her novels, was unsure about her ability to portray character.1 In Forster’s novels the focus is on moral development and moral agency, all those aspects of perso

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