Research Catalog

Title

Virginia Woolf at home / Hilary Macaskill ; foreword by Cecil Woolf.

Author

Macaskill, Hilary

Publication

• [London] : Pimpernel Press Ltd, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Woolf, Cecil

Description

208 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

Virginia Woolf, figurehead of the Bloomsbury Group and an innovative writer whose experimental style and lyrical prose ensured her position as one of the most influential of modern novelists, was also firmly anchored in the reality of the houses she lived in and those she visited regularly. Detailed and evocative accounts appear in her letters and diaries, as well as in her fiction, where they appear as backdrops or provide direct inspiration. Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant the most to Woolf, including: 22 Hyde Park Gate, London, where Virginia Woolf was born in 1882; Talland House, St Ives, Cornwall, the summer home of Virginia's family until 1895; 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, the birthplace of the Bloomsbury Group-- Virginia lived here from 1904 to 1912; Hogarth House, Richmond, London, where the newly married Woolfs set up home and founded the Hogarth Press; Asheham House, East Sussex, the summer home of the Woolfs, 1912-1919; 52 Tavistock Square, London, a return to Bloomsbury, the heart of London; and Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex, where Virginia lived from 1919 until her death in 1941.

Subject

• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Homes and haunts > England
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Family
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
• Literary landmarks > England
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
• Families
• Homes
• Literary landmarks
• England

Note

• Place of publication from publisher's website.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-201) and index.

Contents

Foreword by Cecil Woolf -- The Ideal Childhood, Talland House -- A Victorian Home, 22 Hyde Park Gate -- The Light and the Air, Bloomsbury -- Marriage and Partnership, Hogarth House -- A Haunted House, Asheham House -- London Renewed, 52 Tavistock Square -- A House of One's Own, Monk's House -- The Legacy.

Call Number

JFE 20-3927

ISBN

• 9781910258699
• 1910258695

LCCN

2019393303

OCLC

1084433676

Author

Macaskill, Hilary, author.

Title

Virginia Woolf at home / Hilary Macaskill ; foreword by Cecil Woolf.

Publisher

[London] : Pimpernel Press Ltd, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-201) and index.

Added Author

Woolf, Cecil, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3927