Hermione Lee will be coming to City College to discuss Edith Wharton
and Virginia Woolf, and the art of writing.
AUTHOR OF THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED "VIRGINIA WOOLF."
$B-t(B Author of "The Novels of Virginia Woolf"
$B-t(B Biographer of "Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up"
$B-t(B A Companion of the British Empire for Services to Literature
$B-t(B Appointed to the Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literature and
Fellow
of New College at the University of Oxford
Date: Monday, April 14, 2008
Time: 6:30
Address: Shepard Hall, ROOM: 250,
160 Convent Avenue
(One block east of 138th Street & Amsterdam Ave.) NYC
FREE ADMISSION
FREE FOOD
Contact: Prof. Judell (212)650-6388
Subway: Take the number 1 to 135th St. and walk up hill on 138th
Street (it's one block long) and cross street. There's City College.
For other directions, try www.hopstop.com or www1.ccny.cuny.edu
LIBRARY JOURNAL ON HERMIONE LEE'S "VIRGINIA WOOLF": "Before dismissing
this new biography as just another in a long line of familar material,
one would do well to stop and take in it. Lee (English, Univ. of York,
England) has succeeded in presenting a different side of Woolf
somewhat overlooked in previous studies. Aspects of Woolf's personal
life like her childhood abuse by her stepbrother and her stormy family
life are already well documented (see Louise DeSalvo's Virginia Woolf,
Ballantine, 1990, and Panthea Reid's Art and Affection, LJ 9/15/96,
respectively); and literary studies abound (see James King's Virginia
Woolf, LJ 4/1/95, and Lyndall Gordon's Virginia Woolf, Norton, 1993).
By making use of Woolf's extensive correspondence, diaries, and works,
Lee strives to present her not as a fragile, eccentric victim, as has
been done often, but as a complex, sometimes troubled, yet brilliant
artist who overcame much to accomplish what she did. What results is a
biography that is part social history, part literary analysis, and
overall a fuller picture of Woolf. Lee's eye for detail allows us to
get closer than ever to knowing who she was. While the subject may not
be new, this biography is well worth a close reading."
-?Ronald Ratliff, Chapman H.S. Lib., Kansas
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