In June, Rohan Maitzen, senior editor at Open Letters Monthly, approached Blogging Woolf. She was seeking someone to review a new biography of Virginia Woolf.
Zoe Wolstenholme, who joined Blogging Woolf as a contributing writer just this year, readily agreed to review the work by biographer and critic Ira Nadel. Titled Virginia Woolf, it is part of Reaktion Books’ “Critical Lives” series and is included in the University of Chicago Press catalog.
Wolstenholme’s review, “The bowl that one fills and fills,” was published online Oct. 1.
Open Letters Monthly is a monthly arts and literature review with a readership of more than 30,000. The online publication is linked to regularly by Arts & Letters Daily and 3 Quarks Daily, among other sites.
this is truly a Critical Life; the biography focuses on Woolf’s writing and its relationship with both her own and others’ critical thought – Zoe Wolstenholme, “The bowl that one fills and fills,” Open Letters Monthly, Oct. 1, 2016.
Other new tomes
Also included in the current University of Chicago Press Literature and Criticism Catalog are:
- Charleston Farmhouse: A Photographic Recollection of the Home of the Bloomsbury Group in Sussex by Kim Marsland. The book is based on Marsland’s two visits to the home and includes previously unpublished photographs taken before Charleston’s restoration.
- Kew Gardens, illustrated by Livi Mills and distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Thanks for a very thoughtful review of the new Woolf biography.
Also thanks for following my blog. I’ve been a big fan of Blogging Woolf for quite a while now, so it means a lot to me. 🙂