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The cure for madness Jane Ridley on a life of Virginia Woolf which claims that she sought to write her way out of depression

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050403
Author:Jane Ridley

VIRGINIA WOOLF was probably the cleverest Englishwoman of the 20th century. She was a novelist of brilliance, and she was many other things besides. As well as a leading member of the Bloomsbury set, she was a feisty feminist, an inspired critic and the author of a diary that ranks with Pepys's as one of the greatest ever written. She had mental breakdowns, a sexless marriage, a lesbian affair. All this makes rich pickings for biographers, which perhaps explains why her life is better known today than her work.

Julia Briggs's aim in this new biography is to restore the fiction to its central ...

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