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Article: AN EXHAUSTIVE LOOK AT VIRGINIA WOOLF.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 6, 1997
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Byline: BERNICE GROHSKOPF
VIRGINIA WOOLF
HERMIONE LEE
Alfred A. Knopf. 893 pp. $39.95.
We may wonder if we need another biography of Virginia Woolf. Woolf herself believed that ``life stories need to be retold,'' and Hermione Lee, professor of English literature at the University of York in England, has produced, in her Virginia Woolf, a fuller exploration of one of the 20th century's great innovative novelists.
But Lee also has overloaded her biography, recording Woolf's every inhalation and exhalation, and the ``archival faintness'' Lee confesses to may overtake some readers.
Virginia Woolf was born in 1882, ...