Written by Barbara Lounsberry, author of Becoming Virginia Woolf; Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path; and Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within. The great English writer and thinker Virginia Woolf kept a diary from age 14 until four days before her suicide in 1941. Woolf’s beloved works—Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One’s Own—always … Continue reading Why Writers Should Keep Diaries: Lessons From Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Path
"Lounsberry is the only scholar to treat Woolf 's diaries for themselves--as works of art, as expressions of her private self, and as testing grounds for her experiments in novel writing."--Panthea Reid, author of Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf "Offers a fascinating alternative form of biography. Lounsberry is particularly skillful in combining … Continue reading Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Path
