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Victoria Glendinning's Books
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Leonard WoolfMany people today know Leonard Woolf mainly through the surname of his wife, Virginia, or his role in supporting her through her mental...Read More
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Guardian.co.uk, May 4, 2012
...a work of intense purity and quiet genius, and we're lucky to have it." A cooler Victoria Glendinning in the Spectator noted that sometimes Jamie "slips briefly into 'nature blog' mode. But the spirit of the book is uncompromising and stony. Sightlines...
Inside Story, April 13, 2012
...Vanessa Bell, R.F. Harrod’s The of John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky’s three-volume John Maynard Keynes, Victoria Glendinning’s Leonard Woolf. Although she undoubtedly drew on her own , ’s modernist novels are not essays about herself, writes...
Toronto Star Online, March 5, 2012
...journalist Doris Giller. Past non-Canadian jurors include American author Howard Norman, British playwright Andrew O’Hagan, British novelist Victoria Glendinning and New York-based author Russell Banks...
Winnipeg Free Press, February 18, 2012
...his formative years better than any biographer could. Also recently published is Love's Civil War (edited by Victoria Glendinning), a collection of letters from Ango-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen to Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie, written over the...
Spectator, January 5, 2012
...critic, friend, which I wished I had joined in. He was the best-read man in the country, said Victoria Glendinning, or for Craig Brown, ‘the man who read everything’. His capacity for reading was indeed almost inhuman, and his memory frightening. One...
New Statesman, September 24, 2011
...about her is strictly necessary, but then neither is chocolate." Deliciously combining the tart and the indulgent, Victoria Glendinning's remark about lives of , made in 2005, has stayed in my mind - long after the book that prompted it will have...
Sydney Morning Herald, September 2, 2011
...Said to Denis ? One triumph in the art of writing a life of the less-famous partner is Victoria Glendinning's splendid biography of Leonard Woolf. Brenda Maddox's life of Nora Joyce is another. With these in mind, I read Constance: The Tragic and...
Winnipeg Free Press, February 18, 2012
...his formative years better than any biographer could. Also recently published is Love's Civil War (edited by Victoria Glendinning), a collection of letters from Ango-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen to Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie, written over the...
