Roger Fry: A Biography (Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf)
by Virginia Woolf
Category: Biography & Autobiography

The last book Virginia Woolf saw into print before her death, Roger Fry, is her one serious full-length biography. This edition is based on the text first published by the Hogarth Press in 1940, emended to include corrections Woolf requested but which were never made in the impressions printed by the Press before her death. A relatively complete typescript version of the biography survives, as part of the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library, and the results of a computer collation of this typescript with the first English edition have been taken into account by the editor in her introduction. The typescript reveals Woolf's revising and editing process in response to stylistic concerns and to the actual or anticipated reactions of her readers, including Fry's family and friends.