It is a writer's life, illustrating how the concerns of her work arise and develop, and a political life, which establishes Woolf as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist. This is a vivid, close-up portrait, returning to primary sources, and showing Woolf as occupying a distinct, even uneasy position with 'Bloomsbury'. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause and nature of her madness and suicide, the truth about her marriage, her feelings for women, her prejudies and obsessions. Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. This is a very good biography' Doris Lessing, Sunday Times 'It's what many people have been waiting for, a balanced and sensible study.
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