'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too.

Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.'Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and acr...

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Wat als Shakespeare een geniale zus had gehad? Zou zij dezelfde kansen hebben gekregen als haar broer? Had zij haar talent kunnen ontplooien? Virginia Woolf denkt van niet. Het leven van Judith Shakespeare zou al op voorhand een verdoemd, mislukt leven geweest zijn. In de loop van de geschiedenis hebben vrouwen immers nooit de financiële en materiële onafhankelijkheid gehad die nodig is om ongestoord te kunnen werken en nadenken. En ook van de (mannelijke) kritiek hoefden ze geen st...

Ben ik een snob? is een collectie van de schamele hoeveelheid overgebleven autobiografische teksten van Virginia Woolf, die pas jaren na haar dood werden verzameld en uitgegeven. De vijf teksten waaruit de bundel bestaat zijn telkens voor een ander publiek geschreven – zo vinden we een onaf dagboek, het begin van een autobiografie en essays om voor te dragen bij de ‘Memoir Club’ van de Bloomsburygroep.

Niet alleen het publiek is uiteenlopend, maar ook de tijdspanne waarin de teksten zij...

The subtle complexities of Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’ will no doubt continue to be resonant for a new generation of readers today.

Certainly for both Woolf and Plath, the politics of illness are never far away.

“Illness”, Woolf writes, “makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose extracts”.

On Being Ill is a valuable book for everybody who wants to connect with illness through art and literature, and look at it from a different perspective. With the poignan...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf’s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel’s disparate cast.

A lan...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text, introduced and annotated by Anne Fernald. A map of Mrs. Dalloway’s London.

An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including diary entries and letters related to the composition of the novel, essays, short stories and biographical excerpts, and the only introduction that Virginia Woolf wrote to any of her novels. The voices of other writers are also included, allowing readers to consider the literary p...

'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate MosseThis volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century.

Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found ‘the figure of their dog made me laugh so, I couldn't resist making him a Life.’ The resulting ‘biography’ combines sensuous imaginative description with sharp social comment, and brings Woolf’s unsentimental humour and insight to the fore. We see F...