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The Letters of Virginia Woolf

This collection offers an intimate journey into the mind and life of a seminal modernist writer. It charts the evolution of her thought, her creative process, and the personal struggles that shaped her unique voice. Readers will discover a comprehensive portrait of a woman who not only wrote but deeply lived her literary ideals.

Leave the Letters Till We're Dead
The Sickle Side of the Moon
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1922
The Flight of the Mind
A Change of Perspective

Recommended Reading Order

  1. 1

    This first volume of Virginia Woolf's collected letters covers the formative period from childhood until her marriage at the age of 30, recounting her family life, the development of her style, her intimate experiences and her early, devastating mental breakdowns.

    The Flight of the Mind
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    A Change of Perspective

    The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1923-1928

    These years were dominated by one woman and one book. The woman was Ethel Smyth; the book was The Waves.

    A Change of Perspective
  4. 4

    These years were dominated by one woman and one book. The woman was Ethel Smyth; the book was The Waves. This volume's "unerringly human and confessional tone makes Woolf, at last, a real person" (San Francisco Chronicle). Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index; photographs.

    The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931
  5. 5

    The Sickle Side of the Moon

    The Letters of Virginia Woolf, 1932-1935

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    The penultimate volume of Woolf's letters, when the author was between the ages of 50 and 53, covers the composition of the Years and the death of Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry. Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index.

    The Sickle Side of the Moon
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    The last volume of Virginia Woolf's "Collected Letters" runs from 1936, when she was finishing "The Waves", to 1941, when she drowned herself. But there is little or no shadow of impending tragedy over her sparkling correspondence with Vanessa, Vita, Ethel Smyth and her many other friends.

    Leave the Letters Till We're Dead