{"product_id":"becoming-virginia-woolf-her-early-diaries-and-the-diaries-she-read-paperback","title":"Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Lounsberry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Explores the history of Woolf's diaries, not only to reveal heretofore unremarked sources but also to trace her evolving sense of possibilities in diary-writing, possibilities which helped shape Woolf as a fiction writer. A must-read for devotees of Virginia Woolf.\"--Panthea Reid, author of \u003ci\u003eArt and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e \"This revealing book gives us a diarist with greater literary range than Pepys and affords us a second pleasure: the infinitely varied voices of the diaries Virginia read. They fascinate us as they fascinate her: those writers who encouraged, warned, comforted, and trained a developing genius.\"--Nancy Price, author of \u003ci\u003eSleeping with the Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e \"Lounsberry's deeply researched and gracefully written book shows not only Woolf's development into a great diarist but also her evolvement into the fiction and nonfiction writer revered today.\"--Gay Talese, author of \u003ci\u003eA Writer's Life\u003c\/i\u003e Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf's diary is her lengthiest and longest-sustained work--and her last to reach the public. In the only full-length book to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf's development as a writer through her first twelve diaries--a fascinating experimental stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf's pioneering modernist style can be seen.\u003cbr\u003eStarting with fourteen-year-old Woolf's first palm-sized leather diary, \u003ci\u003eBecoming Virginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers, Mary Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Woolf's \"diary parents\"--Sir Walter Scott and Fanny Burney. These key literary connections open a new and indispensable window onto the story of one of literature's most renowned modernists.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Lounsberry\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emerita of English at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWriting Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450631307442,"sku":"9780813061399","price":40.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/a7ac3a64a7db82923103f46ada62dbfc.webp?v=1778788005","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/becoming-virginia-woolf-her-early-diaries-and-the-diaries-she-read-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}