Georgie came, Harry went
Frank Kermode, 25 April 1991
A Passionate Apprentice. The Early Journals of Virginia Woolf, 1897-1909
edited by Mitchell Leaska.
Hogarth, 444 pp., £25, October 1990,0 7012 0845 7 Show More
edited by Mitchell Leaska.
Hogarth, 444 pp., £25, October 1990,
“... twenties Virginia was justifiably proud of earning some as a conscientious book reviewer. Clive Bell is said to have discovered in 1908 that Virginia had a future as a writer, but anybody who had seen the journals might have known it two or three years earlier. There is certainly plenty of evidence that ‘the instinct’ to write ‘wells like sap in a ... ”