Virginia Woolf : an inner life / Julia Briggs

Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-512) and index.

Beginning : The voyage out (1915) -- Into the night : Night and day (1919) -- Our press arrived on Tuesday : Monday or Tuesday (1921) -- In search of Jacob : Jacob's room (1922) -- A woman connects : The common reader (1925) -- What a lark! What a plunge! : Mrs. Dalloway (1925) -- Writing itself : To the lighthouse (1927) -- The secret of life is ... : Orlando (1928) -- To the women of the future : A room of one's own (1929) -- Into deep waters : The waves (1931) -- The years of The years : The second common reader (1932), Flush (1933), The years (1937) -- Attacking Hitler in England : Three guineas (1938) -- Life writing : Roger Fry (1940), A sketch of the past -- The last of England : Between the acts (1941).

"Virginia Woolf is the greatest of all British women writers and one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century writing. Julia Briggs' aim in this book is to put the writing back absolutely at the centre of Woolf's life; to read that life through her books, using the novels themselves to create a compelling new form of biography. Using Woolf's own matchless commentary on the creative process through her letters, diaries and essays, Julia Briggs has produced a book which is a picture of an artist at full stretch but also a meditation on the whole nature of creativity."--BOOK JACKET.