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Virginia Woolf: Her Art as a Novelist by Joan Bennett

balancinghistorybooks's review

4.0

A slim volume, first published in 1945, Joan Bennett's Virginia Woolf: Her Art as a Novelist is both informative and compelling. Her prose is lovely; intelligent, but never repetitive. She handles ideas with a deft touch, making her biography eminently readable. Despite its length, a rich appraisal is given of each of Woolf's novels, split into differing sections which deal with aspects such as 'Characters and Human Beings' and 'Morals and Values'. I would not hesitate to recommend it to those who are particularly interested as to the way in which Woolf's narrative style developed over the course of her writing career, and the traditional elements of writing which still suffused her later efforts.