In the wake of these considerations, and by taking into account Woolf’s life and her literary achievement, Claudia Cremonesi’s work traces a different portrait of the modernist writer, less encumbered by the orthodoxy of her age and deeply involved in a constant and fruitful dialogue with the voices of the past. In addition to this, biography was the topic of several of her critical writings: Woolf reviewed biographies by contemporary and non-contemporary authors and questioned the literary function and significance of the genre in the context of the modern art of writing. She made biography the substance of her experimental fiction. Being the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, Woolf was personally connected to the genre of literary life. Biography and the Art of Virginia Woolf" analyses Virginia Woolf’s lifelong interest in the genre of biography and life-writing.
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