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RR 2011/20 The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (2nd edition) Edited by Susan Sellers Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2010 xxi + 272 pp. ISBN 978 0 521 89694 8 (hbck); ISBN 978 0 521 72167 7 (pbck) £45 $78 (hbck); £15.99 $27.99 (pbck)
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Keywords English literature, Twentieth century
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121111103146
Born to the ex-son-in-law of Thackeray and a model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Burne-Jones, Adeline Virginia Stephen was destined to lead a creative, if troubled, life. Inspired by her literary father, himself an author and editor of The Cornhill Magazine, Virginia and her brother and sister were already budding journalists as children (writing for the "family newspaper"), but the death of her mother in early adolescence began a downward spiral of mental illness that ended tragically in 1941. Virginia Woolf's most famous titles, Mrs Dalloway (1925), To The Lighthouse (1927) and A Room of One's Own (1929),...