The author of this major biography of Virginia Woolf is Professor of English at York University and a distinguished critic and broadcaster. She is also one of my best friends, so do not expect a dispassionate review, though actually I would not have written it differently even if I were unacquainted with her.

A lot of the interest in Bloomsbury has been a para-literary gossip interest. Readers who know all about the intricate relationships between Virginia and Vanessa and Lytton and Carrington and Clive and Duncan and Maynard and Roger and so on and so on may have only a nodding acquaintance with

Literary Review

Sep 1996

Categories

Victoria Glendinning

They’ve Got Their Little Lists

To Keep That Tumult of Weeping at Bay

Perhaps There Is Something Wrong With Our Brains

Blooming Marvellous

A True Heroine of Her Time

Visions on Oxford Street

A Stitch in Time

She Adored Cockneys

Ink & Inclination

Fifty Shades of White

Nursery School of Writers

Two Good Children and One Bad One

Party People

Some Cuckoo, Some Nests!

Where the Hearth Is