This is an insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her.
How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies — of strength, style, and creativity — shaped Woolf’s path to the radical writing that inspires so many today.
Gill, who holds a PhD in modern French literature from Cambridge University, has taught at Northeastern, Wellesley, Yale, and Harvard.
She is the author of Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale, Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries, and Mary Baker Eddy. She lives in suburban Boston.
Claire Jarvis said in a review for The New York Times that Gill’s new biography of Woolf “takes as its organizing principle Woolf’s relationships, familial and otherwise, with women, placing special emphasis on the writer’s connections to intellectually and literarily ambitious female figures of the 19th and early 20th centuries.”
