{"product_id":"virginia-woolf-by-frances-spalding-9781855144811","title":"Virginia Woolf","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/em\u003e's many novels, notably \u003cem\u003eNight and Day\u003c\/em\u003e (1919), \u003cem\u003eJacob's Room\u003c\/em\u003e (1922), \u003cem\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/em\u003e (1925), \u003cem\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/em\u003e (1927) and \u003cem\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/em\u003e (1931), transformed ideas about structure, plot and characterisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe third child of Leslie and Julia Stephen, and sister of Vanessa (later Bell), Woolf was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group: that union of friends who revolutionised British culture with their innovative approach to art, design, and society in the early years of the twentieth century. Portraiture figured greatly in Woolf's life. Portraits by G.F. Watts and photographs made by her aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, furnished rooms in which she lived. Written portraits were produced in the family home; her father, Leslie Stephen, published short biographies of Samuel Johnson, Pope, Swift, George Eliot, and Thomas Hobbes, while editing the first twenty-six volumes of the \u003cem\u003eDictionary of National Biography\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout her life, Woolf, a sharp observer and a brilliant wordsmith, composed memorable vignettes-in-words of people she knew or encountered, and was herself portrayed by artists and photographers on many occasions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with over a hundred works from public and private collections, documentary photographs, and extracts from her writings, this book catches Woolf's appearance and that of the world around her. It also points to her pursuit of the hidden, the fleeting, and the obscure, in her desire to understand better the place and moment in time and in history in which she lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn charting some of the milestones in Woolf's life, author Frances Spalding acknowledges the seen and unseen aspects of her subject; the outer and the inner, the recognisable and the concealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464764899564,"sku":"9781855144811","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781855144811-virginia-woolf.jpg?v=1775053766","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/virginia-woolf-by-frances-spalding-9781855144811","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}