Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path

"Lounsberry is the only scholar to treat Woolf 's diaries for themselves--as works of art, as expressions of her private self, and as testing grounds for her experiments in novel writing."--Panthea Reid, author of Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf



"Offers a fascinating alternative form of biography. Lounsberry is particularly skillful in combining close attention to and interpretation of the details of Woolf 's diary with a fluent sense of her life being lived across the years."--Mark Hussey, author of Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers, and Common Readers to Her Life, Work, and Critical Reception

“Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this volume is a love letter for all scholars of Woolf and modernism, and for neophytes interested in the aegis of Woolf’s distinctive style. Essential.”—Choice



“Lounsberry has done for Woolf’s diaries what the diaries once did for Woolf’s novels, and what all great literary criticism seeks to do: It takes a canonical work of literature and offers an entirely new way of seeing it.”—New Republic



“An ambitious project that significantly advances our understanding of Woolf’s development as a diarist and a professional writer.”—English Literature in Transition



“Lounsberry’s years of meditation on her material can be felt. . . . In the passionate diary-reader we find here, Barbara Lounsberry has brought to life one more Virginia Woolf.”—Times Literary Supplement



“Convincingly situates the diary as an integral part of Woolf’s developing modernist aesthetic, and as a work worthy of study in its own right.”—Woolf Studies Annual