
(Marder's book is distinguished from these in its attempt to study only the last ten years.)


Now we must add Herbert Marder (2000)-yet another aspirant who has taken on the interesting, if apparently unresolvable problem of narrating the life of Woolf. The list of authors who have tried to describe the life of Virginia Woolf is long: it includes Woolf herself and her nephew, Quentin Bell (1972) Roger Poole (1978), Stephen Trombley (1981), Lyndall Gordon (1984), Louise DeSalvo (1989), Peter Alexander (1992), James King (1995), and Hermione Lee (1996). The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years by Herbert Marder.

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