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Summary: "An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOLF, VIRGINIA GILForrester, Viviane.
Summary: Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester's biography draws on revelations about the author that often remain buried and carefully applies them to a narrative of her development and influence. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOLF, VIRGINIA WOOSummary: The story unfolds on a beautiful summer day in London, in 1923, while Clarissa Dalloway recalls a summer in the country, in 1890, when she was young and beautiful and very much courted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: "A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make over the course of one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GOLBriggs, Julia.
Contents: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 BRIWilson, Jean Moorcraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 WILWoolf, Virginia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & World 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.91 WOOWoolf, Virginia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 WOOUlrich, Laurel.
Summary: "They didn't ask to be remembered," historian Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: "Well-behaved women seldom make history." Today those words appear on T-shirts, bumper stickers, and more--but what do they really mean? Here, Ulrich ranges over centuries and cultures, from the fifteenth-century...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4209 ULRSmyth, Katharine
Summary: Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death--a calamity that claimed her favorite person--she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMYTH, KATHARINE SMYJones, Danell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.042 JONJohnstone, J. K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Noonday Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9 JOHWeinstein, Arnold L.
Summary: "Great art discovers for us who we are," writes literature professor and critic Weinstein in this book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers who "reinvent the novel by exploding our sense of what we are." He invites us to discover our perceptions, our dreams, our own elusive, deepest stories in these masterpieces of modernist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 WEIRobinson, Andrew
Summary: The extraordinarily inventive Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, was asked how he came to have so many good ideas. Pauling replied: "Well, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones." Where do ideas come from? And why do the best ideas sometimes strike in a flash of "sudden genius"? Andrew Robinson here offers a fascinating look at the genesis of creativity in science and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 ROBWoolf, Virginia
Summary: In this poignant and humorous work, Virginia Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being's experience, it has never been the subject of literature--like the more acceptable subjects of war and love. We cannot quote Shakespeare to describe a headache. We must, Woolf says, invent language to describe pain. And though illness enhances our perceptions, she observes that it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paris Press 2002
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Summary: Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend, but the world's most celebrated female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their investigations into a wealth of surprising collaborations, such as the friendships between George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe or Virginia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MIDParmar, Priya
Summary: "For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a captivating novel that offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf, and the controversial and popular circle of intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group. London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSummary: In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOUCunningham, Michael
Summary: The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUNDeSalvo, Louise
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 desLehmann, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 LEHWoolf, Virginia
Summary: This volume brings fresh light to Woolf's essays and enriches them with variations. It forms part of a unique collection from one of our greatest writers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The bridges of Madison County: World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid is on assignment to photograph the bridges of Madison County, Iowa. He stops for directions at Francesca Johnson's farmhouse, and passion ignites. Defending your life: A man who is killed in a car accident ends up in 'Judgment City', a holding station for souls, where a person must defend themselves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013