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In 2001, Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska edited The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Julia Briggs's Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life (2005) focuses on Woolf's writing, including her novels and her commentary on the creative process, to illuminate her life. The sociologist Pierre Bourdieu also uses Woolf's literature to ...
A Writer’s Diary (1953) - Extracts from the complete diary; A Moment's Liberty: the shorter diary (1990) The Diary of Virginia Woolf (five volumes) - Diary of Virginia Woolf from 1915 to 1941; Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 (1990) Travels With Virginia Woolf (1993) - Greek travel diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Jan Morris
Virginia Woolf was known as a critic by her contemporaries and many scholars have attempted to analyse Woolf as a critic. In her essay, "Modern Fiction", she criticizes H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett and John Galsworthy and mentions and praises Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, William Henry Hudson, James Joyce and Anton Chekhov.
The fiction portion became Woolf's most popular novel during her lifetime, The Years, which charts social change from 1880 to the time of publication through the lives of the Pargiter family. It was so popular, in fact, that pocket-sized editions of the novel were published for soldiers as leisure reading during World War II .
Her memoir, All The Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf, was released in 2019 to mostly positive reviews. Bethanne Patrick, writing for TIME, said, "Blending analysis of a deeply literary novel with a personal story is a high-wire act for many reasons, not least being how few readers will have read Woolf themselves.
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Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend.