![]() ![]() She is a writer who lends herself to infinitely various interpretation. They can start with a theory or a belief and see her always in terms of it, since, like Shakespeare, They can start by thinking of her as a victim, as someone who is going to kill herself. ![]() Social and intellectual group and its reputation. They can start with Bloomsbury, fixing her inside her ![]() They can start at source, with her family history, and see her in the context of ancestry, country, class. The different openings suggest some of the choices for Virginia Woolf's biographers. "Was Virginia Woolf 'insane'?"4 "Was Virginia Woolf mad?"5 "Virginia Woolf said that 'if life has a base' it is a memory."6 Or: "Yet another book about Bloomsbury."7 How do they begin? "Virginia Woolf was a Miss Stephen."2 "Virginia Woolf was a sexually abused child: she was an incest-survivor."3 "My God, how does one write a Biography?"1 Virginia Woolf's question haunts her own biographers. ![]()
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