Provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries.
Well known for her novels To The Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, and the feminist work A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf led an intriguing and often difficult life that is fascinatingly portrayed in this new biography from Woolf scholar David Bradshaw. The author looks at Woolf’s work in the light of ...
A fetching illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf uses never-before-published photos and portraits to introduce readers to this seminal writer, detailing her remarkable literary career, her haunted private life, and her colleagues from the famed Bloomsbury Circle. 15,000 first printing.