Description: A valuable addition to scholarship on Bloomsbury, the history of women in Britain, and the works of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, this resource portrays the era and illuminates the work of a number of famous writers by examining less well-known lives and works that were part of the adaptive complex, or milieu.
Review Quotes:
"...was an absorbing collection of essays, which helps to set Woolf's feminism and pacifism in a carefully researched context of the work of often forgotten women workers for these two causes. Woolf herself would have appreciated the book..." --Julia Briggs, Choice Reviews
"...situates the debates about the importance of the socialist and pacifist vision of Leonard and Virginia Woolf on solid historical ground...confirms the view of [them]...as the serious and committed English public intellectuals they really were." --Jane Marcus, CUNY Graduate Center and The City College of New York, Choice Reviews "...the volume has an excellent preface and an impressive select bibliography...opens up fruitful materials for future scholarship on the Woolfs. J.E.Steiner, Drew University, >" --Choice Reviews ""...the volume has an excellent preface and an impressive select bibliography...opens up fruitful materials for future scholarship on the Woolfs." J.E.Steiner, Drew University, " --Choice Reviews "...was an absorbing collection of essays, which helps to set Woolf's feminism and pacifism in a carefully researched context of the work of often forgotten women workers for these two causes. Woolf herself would have appreciated the book..." --Julia Briggs, Choice Reviews "...situates the debates about the importance of the socialist and pacifist vision of Leonard and Virginia Woolf on solid historical ground...confirms the view of [them]...as the serious and committed English public intellectuals they really were." --Jane Marcus, CUNY Graduate Center and The City College of New York, Choice Reviews