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Published years after her death, Moments of Being is Virginia Woolf’s only autobiographical writing, considered by many to be her most important book.

In “Reminiscences,” the first of five pieces included in Moments of Being, Woolf focuses on the death of her mother, “the greatest disaster that could happen,” and its effect on her father, a demanding Victorian patriarch who played a crucial role in her development as an individual and a writer. Three of the essays she wrote for the purpose of reading at the Memoir Club, a postwar regrouping of Bloomsbury, and “A Sketch of the Past” the last and longest of the five essays, gives an account of Woolf's early years in her family's household at 22 Hyde Park Gate.

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Moments of Being is "the single most moving and beautiful thing that Virginia Woolf ever wrote about her own life" (The New York Times) and her only autobiographical writing, published years after her death.
This collection of five pieces written for different audiences spanning almost four decades reveals the remarkable unity of Virginia Woolf's art, thought, and sensibility.?
"Reminiscences," written during her apprenticeship period, exposes the childhood shared by Woolf and her sister, Vanessa, while "A Sketch of the Past" illuminates the relationship with her father, Leslie Stephens, who played a crucial role in her development as an individual a writer. Of the final three pieces, composed for the Memoir Club, which required absolute candor of its members, two show Woolf at the threshold of artistic maturity and one shows a confident writer poking fun at her own foibles.

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Title Moments of Being: Second Edition
Author Virginia Woolf
Binding Paperback
Edition 2 Sub
Pages 240
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Mariner Books Classics, New York
Date 1985-08-23
ISBN 9780156619189 / 0156619180
Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
Dimensions 8 x 5.31 x 0.75 in (20.32 x 13.49 x 1.91 cm)
Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
Library of Congress subjects Novelists, English - 20th century - Biography, Woolf, Virginia
Library of Congress Catalog Number 85008521
Dewey Decimal Code B

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