Virginia Woolf, Life and London: A Biography of Place
- ISBN-10
- 0900821884
- ISBN-13
- 9780900821882
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / General
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- C. Woolf
- Author
- Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Description
Like Dickens, Pepys, and Dr. Johnson, Virginia Woolf had an intense personal and literary response to London, her native city and lifelong home. This book provides a dual portrait of the great writer and her London.
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