A Passionate Apprentice The Early Journals 1897-1909

Virginia Woolf (author), Mitchell A Leaska (editor)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Covering the years 1897-1909, these journals complete the autobiographical sequence of Virginia Woolf's diary and letters and provide a picture of the circumstances in which she taught herself her craft. Many of the incidents of these years were to profoundly influence the rest of her life and were to become recurring themes in her novels: the death of her father, trips to Spain, Italy and Greece, and first encounters with those who were to form the Bloomsbury group.

About the Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Chatto was founded in 1855 by a bookseller-publisher called John Camden Hotten. On Hotten's death, Andrew Chatto, who had worked there since he was fifteen, acquired the business with a sleeping partner, W.E. Windus. In 1917, The Hogarth Press was founded by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and in 1946 this too came under Chatto's management. The firm published many significant writers and classics - R.L. Stevenson, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Laurie Lee, Christopher Isherwood, Rosamond Lehmann, Henry Green, Sigmund Freud and Iris Murdoch. Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate, was editorial director in the 1960s.

Book information

ISBN:	9780701208455
Publisher:	Chatto & Windus
Imprint:	Chatto & Windus
Pub date:	22 Oct 1990
DEWEY:	823.912
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	444
Weight:	758g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm