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Virginia Woolf's Women Vanessa Curtis Foreword by Julia Briggs "If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure—the relationship so secret and private compared with relations to men." —Virginia Woolf in her diary, 1924 This is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational friendships with the key women in her life, including the caregivers of her Victorian childhood who instilled in her a lifelong battle between creativity and convention: her taciturn sister, Vanessa Bell; enigmatic artist Dora Carrington; complex writer Katherine Mansfield; aristocratic novelist Vita Sackville-West; and riotous, militant composer Ethel Smyth. "Vanessa Curtis's portrait of Woolf, her family, and her friends is quite compelling. What I found most distinctive is Curtis's fine appreciation of the emotional tissue that connected Woolf to the women who loved her. . . Using diaries and letters, Curtis illuminates these varied relationships." —Lynn K. Talbot, Roanoke College, coauthor of Living at the Edge Vanessa Curtis cofounded the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.in 1998. She coedits the Virginia Woolf Bulletin and has published a monograph on Virginia Woolf for the Bloomsbury Heritage series. She lives and writes near Chichester Harbour, England. For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

February 2003 224 pp. 6 x 9  20 b/w illus.     ISBN 978-0-299-18340-0    Cloth $27.95 t Copublished with Robert Hale Ltd., London Wisconsin edition for sale only in the United States and dependencies, and in Canada Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first. Copublished with Robert Hale Ltd., London

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