Virginia Woolf

Public and Private Negotiations

By: A. Snaith

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Hardcover | 5 June 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Ideas of public and private are central in Virginia Woolf's writing. She used the terms constantly, re-negotiating their meanings and significance for her, as a woman writer and public figure. This book relates them to key aspects of her feminism and writing practice, exploring their influence on her ideas about women and publishing, her conception of the reading public, her spatial politics, her distinction between public and private genres, and her narrative strategies. In the first full-length study of this aspect of Woolf's work, Anna Snaith provides an illuminating discussion of the significance of the public and private for Woolf, arguing that Woolf approached and employed the terms in complex, contingent ways. A new approach to Woolf's writing is offered, together with discussion of unpublished material: manuscript material from The Pargiters, and previously unexplored letters to Woolf, providing a fascinating insight into the socio-cultural milieu of her readership.

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'The relation between public and private was a persistent concern for Virginia Woolf throughout her career. Anna Snaith's meticulous study of that relation will put it where it belongs: at the heart of a proper understanding of Woolf's work as a writer and a feminist.' - David Trotter, Professor of English, University College London '...explores Woolf's feminism and socialism, and gives a thoughtful account of her highly characteristic narrative technique...most original.' - Julia Briggs, Times Literary Supplement '...an important contribution to Woolf studies, particularly in its discussions of Woolf's feministm and pacifism, her narrative strategies, her attitudes about gender and class, and her views on history, fact and fiction.' - Diana L Swanson, N. Illinois University, Woolf Studies Annual '...some very valuable research...admirable.' - Virginia Woolf Bulletin

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Acknowledgements	p. viii
Abbreviations of Texts	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Woolf in public	p. 1
The public and the private	p. 6
From Private to Public: Hyde Park Gate to Bloomsbury	p. 16
Women in public	p. 16
The journey to Bloomsbury	p. 24
Suffrage	p. 30
London to Sussex	p. 34
Representing Women's Lives	p. 42
Publication	p. 42
Writing women: avoiding definition	p. 45
The problematics of publicity	p. 49
Auto/biography	p. 51
'A Sketch of the Past'	p. 53
'The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn'	p. 56
'I wobble'. Narrative Strategies: Public and Private Voices	p. 63
Negotiating Genre: Re-visioning History in The Pargiters	p. 88
The Reading Public: Respondents to Three Guineas	p. 113
'With this odd mix up of public and private I left off': War, Audience and Artist 1938-1941	p. 130
Invasion of the private by the public	p. 130
Fiction: public as audience	p. 142
The last essays: 'no conclusions'	p. 153
'A little cairn of conjectures'	p. 157
Notes	p. 166
Bibliography	p. 183
Index	p. 192
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