{"product_id":"genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read-9780008361884","title":"Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFOREWORD BY ALI SMITH\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the early years of its existence, the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper's defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Bront?, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad: all are here, in anonymously published pieces, in which may be glimpsed the thinking behind Woolf's works of fiction and the enquiring, feminist spirit of \u003cem\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHere is Woolf the critical essayist, offering, at one moment, a playful hypothesis and, at another, a judgement laid down with the authority of a twentieth-century Dr Johnson. Here is Woolf working out precisely what's great about Hardy, and how Elizabeth Barrett Browning made books a \"substitute for living\" because she was \"forbidden to scamper on the grass\". Above all, here is Virginia Woolf the reader, whose enthusiasm for great literature remains palpable and inspirational today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) is one of the world's great writers. Born Virginia Stephen, she became a professional writer in 1900, and began writing for the TLS a few years later. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf; they founded the Hogarth Press five years later. Her novels include \u003cem\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/em\u003e (1925), \u003cem\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/em\u003e (1927) and The Waves (1931), but she is also celebrated as the author of short stories and non-fiction, including the feminist essays \u003cem\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/em\u003e (1929) and \u003cem\u003eThree Guineas\u003c\/em\u003e (1938).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tls Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50510935720210,"sku":"9780008361884","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77c8bd4a-718c-41e0-afbe-e830322f48da.jpg?v=1730939713","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/genius-and-ink-virginia-woolf-on-how-to-read-9780008361884","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}