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Literary Life  \nGeneral Editor:Richard Dutton  \nMacmillan Literary Lives  \nGeneral Editor:Richard Dutton,Reader in English,University ofLancaster  \nThis series offers stimulating accounts of the literary careers of themost widely read British and Irish authors.Volumes follow theoutline of writers'working lives,not in the spirit of traditionalbiography,but aiming to trace the professional,publishing andsocial contexts which shaped their writing.The role and status of'the author as the creator of literary texts is a vexed issue in currentcritical theory,where a variety of social,linguistic and psychologi-cal approaches have challenged the old concentration on writers asspecially-gifted individuals.Yet reports of 'the death of the author'in literary studies are(as Mark Twain said of a premature obituary)an exaggeration.This series aims to demonstrate how an under-standing of writers'careers can promote,for students and generalreaders alike,a more informed historical reading of their works.  \nPublished titles  \nRichard DuttonWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE  \nJan FergusJANE AUSTEN  \nPaul HammondJOHN DRYDEN  \nJoseph McMinnJOHN DONNE  \nKerry McSweeneyGEORGE ELIOT(MARIAN EVANS)  \nJohn MephamVIRGINIA WOOLF  \nMichael O'NeillPERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY  \nForthcoming  \nMorris BejaJAMES JOYCE  \nCedric BrownJOHN MILTON  \nPeter DavisonGEORGE ORWELL  \nJames GibsonTHOMAS HARDY  \nKenneth GrahamHENRY JAMES  \nDavid KayBEN JONSON  \nSeries Standing Order  \nGeorge ParfittJOHN DONNEFelicity RosslynALEXANDER POPETony SharpeT.S.ELIOTCedric WattsJOSEPH CONRAD  \nTom Winnifrith andEdward ChithamCHARLOTTE ANDEMILY BRONTE  \nJohn Worthen  \nD.H.LAWRENCE  \nAlasdair MacRaeW.B.YEATSLeonee Ormond  \nALFRED,LORD TENNYSONDavid B.PirieJOHN KEATSBarry Windeatt  \nGEOFFREY CHAUCERGary WallerEDMUND SPENSER  \nIf you would like to receive future titles in this series as they arepublished,you can make use of our standing order facility.To place astanding order please contact your bookseller or,in case of difficulty,write to us at the address below with your name and address and thename of the series.Please state with which title you wish to begin yourstanding order.(If you live outside the United Kingdom we may nothave the rights for your area,in which case we will forward your orderto the publisher concerned.)  \nCustomer Services Department,Macmillan Distribution LtdHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire,RG212XS,England.  \nVirginia WoolfA Literary Life  \nJohn Mepham  \nJohn Mepham 1991  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmissionof this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copiedor transmitted save with wrtten permission or in accordancewith the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copyingissued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,33-4 Alfred Place,London WC1E 7DP.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation tothis publication may be liable to criminal prosecution andcivil claims for damages.  \nFirst published 1991  \nPublished by  \nTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTDHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand London  \nCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataMepham,John  \nVirginia Woolf:a literary life.  \n1.Fiction in English.Woolf,Virginia,1882-1941  \nI.Title823.912  \nISBN 978-0-333-46471-7 ISBN 978-1-349-21784-7(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-21784-7  \nContents  \nList of Abbreviations  \nList of Tables  \nAcknowledgements  \nIntroduction:The Will to Write  \n11882-1903:Virginia Stephen Becomes a Writer  \n21904-09:Journalist  \n31910-15:Moratorium and Crisis  \n41916-21:A Press of One's Own  \n51922-24:Her Own Voice  \n61925-27:Modernist Fictions  \n71928-31:Androgyny and the End of the Novel  \n81932-37:The Outsider  \n91938-40:Life-Writing  \n101941:The Illusion Fails  \n11 Conclusion  \nNotes  \nIndex  \nix  \nX  \nxiii  \n1  \n13  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