Virginia Woolf's influential forebears : Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen /: Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marion Dell.
• Authors: Dell, Marion
• Contents: Covers; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Family Tree; Introduction: 'Born into a Large Connection'; 1 'And Finally Virginia': Cameron, Ritchie, Stephen and Woolf's Constructs of her Ancestry; Pattledom; Woolf's problematic response to her past; Woolf, Cameron, Stephen and Ritchie; Interconnections: Cameron, Ritchie and Stephen; Woolf's narratives of Cameron, Ritchie and Stephen; 2 'Knocking at the Door': Heredity, Legacy and Transition in Night and Day; 'Knocking at the door': Ritchie and border crossings; Literary transformations; Generic ambivalence in Night and Day. Continuities and porous boundariesGenetic legacies; Inherited roles for women; Life-writing; A large connection; Ambivalence, liminality and Woolf's 'third space'; 3 'The Transparent Medium': Anny Thackeray Ritchie; Daughters of educated men; Ritchie's achievements; Woolf's apprenticeship; Lines of influence from Ritchie's essays; 'A very feminine kind of writing'; Writing Lives; Lines of descent from Ritchie's novels; Ritchie's proto-modernism; Crafting memories; Woolf's obscuration of Ritchie's legacies; Woolf's covert acknowledgement of Ritchie: the trope of the door. 4 'Take my lens. I bequeath it to my descendents': Julia Margaret CameronCameron's legacy; 'The Searchlight': genesis; Cameron and Woolf: recontextualisation, imaginative retelling and fictionalised auto/biography; Ritchie as 'transparent medium' between Cameron and Woolf; Woolf's representations of Cameron; Woolf's suppression of Cameron's achievements; Blurring boundaries: Cameron's influence in Woolf's work; Public and private spheres; Photograph albums: visual auto/biographies and family histories; Woolf's visual inheritance: identity, perspective and angles of vision. Cameron's proto-modernism: commonalities with WoolfWoolf's use of the visual: lines of influence; Cameron, Stephen and Woolf: arresting beauty; 5 'Closer than any of the living': Julia Prinsep Stephen; Constructs of Stephen; The Angel in the House; Stephen's achievements: the 'real' woman; Stephen's writing and its influence on Woolf; Stephen's atheism and philanthropy; Stephen's mentorship of the young apprentice; Stephen's legacies: laughter and gossip; The absent mother; Woolf's engagement with the Angel in the House; The Angel, photography and ways of seeing. Retrieving the lost mother: invisible presencesLiving life through from the start: reimagining Stephen; 6 'Let us be our great grandmothers': Heredity and Legacy in The Years; Recreating family histories: The Years and A Sketch of the Past; Resurrecting Julia Stephen; The Years and Night and Day; Street music and echoes of Ritchie; Yorkshire roots; Recovering family histories: Woolf and Ethel Smyth; Endings and continuities; Julia Margaret Cameron: the continuing influence of the visual; Cycles, liminality and Woolf's 'third space'
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages)
• Subjects: 500; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature & literary studies; Literature: history & criticism; Families; Literature; British and Irish Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Literary History; Fiction; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation; Family
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137497284; 1137497289; 9781137497291; 1137497297
• Related ISBNs: 9781349580194; 1137497270; 9781137497277
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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