Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears

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Virginia Woolf's Influential Forebears reveals under-acknowledged nineteenth-century legacies which shaped Woolf as a writing woman. Marion Dell identifies significant lines of descent from the lives and works of Woolf's great-aunt Julia Margaret Cameron, the writer she called aunt, Anny Thackeray Ritchie, and her mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen.

subjects: Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941,  Cameron, julia margaret, 1815-1879,  Criticism and interpretation,  Family,  Families,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Literature & literary studies,  Literature: history & criticism