Acknowledgments; Preface to the fourth edition; 1. 'Rosy-flowered fruit tree and beak of brass'; 2. The body, the mirror, Gerald and George; 3. The terrors of engagement; 4. Full bellies, dull minds; 5. 'What exactly do you mean by that'; 6. Leonard's three problems; 7. The ordeal of 1912; 8. 'Butter, cream, and eggs and bacon'; 9. Virginia's own view negated and disconfirmed; 10. 'Taboo against eating - guilt'; 11. 'Conspiracy'; 12. 'Forbade childbirth, penalised despair'; 13. 'The birds talking Greek'; 14. Was Septimus Smith 'insane'?; 15. Virginia's embodiment; 16. Fuhrer, Düce, tyrant; 17. Incompatibility; 18. Octavia Wilberforce: 'oak and triple brass were around her breast'; 19. Death by shrapnel or death by water; Bibliographical note; Index.
This new edition of a classic study contains a specially written preface evaluating contemporary feminist criticism.
'… in the best sense of an over-used word, it is challenging; it
makes us aware of the dangers of a canon being too easily
established in biographical interpretation, and of the closeness of
relation between the novels and the life. It is especially welcomed
for its verve, its overriding sense of engagement, its self-evident
'need to be written'.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
'Poole's analysis of Virginia's marriage to Leonard Woolf is deadly
frank and honest - and, I feel, absolutely accurate. As is the rest
of this remarkable work. The Unknown Virginia Woolf is a
brilliantly argued interpretation of the life of a genius, much
maligned by her closest associates and friends.' Eric Hiscock, The
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