Curtis, Vanessa. Virginia Woolf's Women.(Book Review)

From: Studies in the Novel | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Henry, Holly | Copyright information

CURTIS,VANESSA. Virginia Woolf's Women. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 224 pp. $27.95.

Vanessa Curtis offers a readable overview of several of the most important women to influence Virginia Woolf's life and work. Curtis's project, she reports, is to reveal "a side of Woolf that is perhaps not so widely seen" and to investigate the relationships between Virginia and women "who are not usually considered to have been even cursory members of the 'Bloomsbu...

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