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The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 2, 1912-1922
Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann, Nigel Nicolson
4.13 AVERAGE
6 reviews for:
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 2, 1912-1922
Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann, Nigel Nicolson
4.13 AVERAGE
It took me a while to finish this, not because I didn't enjoy it, but for 2 reasons: a) it's 600+ pages long b) it's a little off-putting to just read one side of multiple conversations, as the only letters included in this volume are ones written by Woolf herself, not her correspondents. Which is ok, but some of them contain nothing more than paltry details that she obviously didn't expect anyone other than the recipient to want to read.
Maybe not as enjoyable as the diaries, and the earlier letters when she is younger can be a bit tedious (especially the luvy-duvie ones to Violet Dickinson, of which there are a LOT) but that's what you get when you have a full collection (it starts with her first effort at a letter when she was six!). This volume really hits its literary straps when she starts corresponding with Clive Bell. VW's company always enjoyable. Looking forward to volume two.
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The first half of this volume felt slow, mostly consisting of jocular letters to Woolf's (more than) friend Violet Davis. The second half picked up as her tone and subject matters matured as she began to correspond with Bloomsbury members such as Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey and her sister Vanessa. The second half also includes letters by Woolf discussing her burgeoning career as a book reviewer and work on her first novel.