The New Biography

essay by Woolf

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In Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own and other major works of Virginia Woolf
…Art of Fiction” and “The New Biography,” she wrote that fiction writers should be less concerned with naive notions of reality and more with language and design. However restricted by fact, she argued, biographers should yoke truth with imagination, “granite-like solidity” with “rainbow-like intangibility.” Their relationship having cooled by…
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