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Flush
Virginia Woolf
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Description for Flush
Paperback. Virginia Woolf's humorous biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel is charming yet also radical. A work of sensuous imagination, it opens up a range of questions about class, society, and cultural attitudes which are woven throughout the whole of Woolf's writing. Editor(s): Flint, Kate. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 146.
'I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life.' Throughout her career, Woolf invokes the animal world both directly and metaphorically. She started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel after finishing The Waves, tracing the life of the spaniel from his country origins, his puppyhood spent with the writer Mary Mitford, through his sheltered existence with Elizabeth Barrett in her sick room, and later travels in Florence. But Flush is much more than a playful ... Read more
'I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life.' Throughout her career, Woolf invokes the animal world both directly and metaphorically. She started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel after finishing The Waves, tracing the life of the spaniel from his country origins, his puppyhood spent with the writer Mary Mitford, through his sheltered existence with Elizabeth Barrett in her sick room, and later travels in Florence. But Flush is much more than a playful ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199539291
SKU
V9780199539291
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About Virginia Woolf
Kate Flint is a Reader in English Language and Literature and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.
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