Flush : a biography

Woolf, Virginia

Published by London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1933

About this Item

Woolf, Virginia. Flush : a biography. Second impression. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1933. Hardback, Good, no dustjacket. Brown cloth, speckled and faded to upper and lower board, gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. 1933 ownership signature to ffep. Frontispiece b/w photograph. Medallionillustration to title page. 163pp., b/w plates. Contents clean and bright. Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in 1933. Written after the completion of her emotionally draining The Waves, the work returned Woolf to the imaginative consideration of English history that she had begun in Orlando: A Biography. Commonly read as a modernist consideration of city life seen through the eyes of a dog, Flush serves as a harsh criticism of the supposedly unnatural ways of living in the city. The figure of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the text is often read as an analogue for other female intellectuals, like Woolf herself, who suffered from illness, feigned or real, as a part of their status as female writers. Most insightful and experimental are Woolf's emotional and philosophical views verbalised in Flush's thoughts. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flush : a biography
• Publisher: London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
• Publication Date: 1933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • Fiction