MELYMBROSIA

WOOLF, Virginia

ISBN 10: 1573441481 / ISBN 13: 9781573441483

Published by Cleis, San Francisco, 2002

About this Item

8vo, pp. xxvii, 350. Edited by Louise DeSalvo. Blue cloth. A nice copy in very slightly chipped dj. Though she completed this novel in 1912, Woolf revised it to make it more palatable to her public, and eventually published it as "The voyage out." Through extensive reaearch, DeSalvo has resconstructed the original.

Seller Inventory # 51625

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MELYMBROSIA
• Publisher: Cleis, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573441481
• ISBN 13: 9781573441483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition, first printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

A new novel by the author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, written in 1912, centers on the emotional and sexual awakening of a young British woman abroad and her witness to homosexuality, the suffrage movement, and colonialism.

About the Author

Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 London. Following the death of her father, Woolf moved with her sister Vanessa and two brothers to the house in Bloomsbury. In 1905, Woolf began to write for the Times Literary Supplement. She composed her first novel, Melymbrosia, from 1909 to 1912. In 1912, she met and married Leonard Woolf, with whom she founded the Hogarth Press. In 1915, Gerald Duckworth published a later version of Melymbrosia under the title The Voyage Out.

Between the two World Wars, Virginia Woolf was at the center of The Bloomsbury group, which included E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant, among others. In 1926, Woolf began a passionate romance with writer Vita Sackville-West, for whom she wrote Orlando.

In 1895 and 1915, Virginia Woolf suffered mental breakdowns. These attacks required many weeks of medical treatment. For the rest of her life, she continued to experience milder mood swings and severe headaches. On March 28, 1941, fearing yet another breakdown from which she might not recover, Woolf loaded her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse near her Sussex home.

Recognized in her own time and country as one of the most significant of the Modernists, Woolf left sixteen volumes of fiction and essays, in addition to her diaries, letters, and memoirs. In the sixty years following her death, her novels and essays have reached an ever-increasing audience. She is now recognized as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Melymbrosia is her first completed novel.

Louise DeSalvo is professor of English and Creative Writing at Hunter College and the author of the highly-acclaimed Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work and Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives, among other works. DeSalvo is also co-editor of The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Cleis, 2001).