Carlyle's House and Other Sketches (100 Pages) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia; Bradshaw, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843910551 ISBN 13: 9781843910558

Publisher: Hesperus Pr, 2003

Synopsis

Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches marks the first publication of one of Virginia Woolf’s very earliest notebooks. Recently unearthed from a collection of private papers, it contains a series of six striking and semi-autobiographical sketches, each transcribed and edited by Dr. David Bradshaw. From the cold formality of London townhouses with their rows of austere portraits, to the dull chaos of the academic’s abode, and the eccentric spinster’s Hampstead home, Virginia Woolf paints a series of portraits of everyday life, capturing character and setting in exquisite detail. Experimental in style, and heralding the later masterpieces Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, this early notebook is quintessential Woolf.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Acclaimed for her innovative and inventive style, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is one of the most important figures of the Modernist Movement. Her works include To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own and Mrs Dalloway.

Dr David Bradshaw is Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. His has edited and introduced numerous works, and he provides a comprehensive introduction and notes for this first edition of Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches.

From Booklist:

Our fascination with Virginia Woolf flows unabated. Michael Cunningham's homage, The Hours (1998), was turned into a major motion picture. A trenchant yet forgotten work of Woolf's, On Being Ill [BKL O 15 02], was rediscovered and handsomely republished, and now a lost notebook has miraculously resurfaced. It was written in 1909 when the 27-year-old budding writer, still named Virginia Stephen, was thoroughly frustrated by her unmarried state. In a series of angry sketches, each ably analyzed by Oxford fellow Bradshaw, Woolf is edgy and judgmental as she recounts her visits to the homes of the Carlyles and Darwins, limns a cutting little portrait of Lady Ottoline Morrell, and pens a harshly anti-Semitic account of one Mrs. Loeb. As Doris Lessing writes in her brilliant foreword, Woolf was as "malicious" as she was creative, and the astonishing power of her work is rooted in her complexity as well as in her mission "to make her novels nets to catch what she saw as the subtler truth about life." Donna Seaman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hesperus Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1843910551
• ISBN 13: 9781843910558
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52