LovedSo he reflects on childhood memories of knowing her and her warmth and generosity and playfulness, her hy jinks, but he doesn't rest on the laurels of insider information or a kind of knowingness or exclusivity. He really is a good biographer.
Virginia Woolf (2000)
Creators: Loved "Virginia Woolf's life as part of the avant-garde Bloomsbury Group has captured the imagination of millions. Now Nigel Nicolson threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. In so doing, he paints an astonishing portrait of one of the most remarkable women in history.". "Nicolson recalls childhood times with Woolf: from her walks around his ancestral home as she planned Orlando to her writing of the modern classics Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own. Virginia Woolf probes keenly her stance on women's issues and the nature of war and is suffused with personal admiration and affection for this incomparable writer."--BOOK JACKET.
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