Title: Virginia Woolf's influential forebears : Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen /
Authors: Dell, Marion,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, Criticism and interpretation.; Woolf, Virginia, Family.; Woolf, Virginia,; Families; Families.; LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Literature & literary studies.; Literature: history & criticism.
Abstract: Virginia Woolf's Influential Forebears reveals under-acknowledged nineteenth-century legacies which shaped Woolf as a writing woman. Marion Dell identifies significant lines of descent from the lives and works of Woolf's great-aunt Julia Margaret Cameron, the writer she called aunt, Anny Thackeray Ritchie, and her mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen.
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