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Virginia Woolf and Her Family's Secret Life
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
May 14, 1989| Author:
Julia Epstein
| Copyright 1989 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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VIRGINIA WOOLF
The Impact of Childhood Sexual
Abuse on Her Life and Work By Louise DeSalvo
Beacon Press. 372 pp. $22.95
ANY BOOK that begins "Virginia Woolf was a sexually abused child;
she was an incest survivor" doesn't mean to mince words. Using
psychoanalytic methods, Louise DeSalvo focuses on the suffocating
environment created by Leslie and Julia Stephen for the eight
children in their household. Virginia Stephen, born in 1882, was the
seventh of these children, and she was ...
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