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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
Introduction: Born into a Large Connection 1. And Finally Virginia: Cameron, Ritchie, Stephen and Woolf's constructs of her ancestry 2. Knocking at the Door: Heredity, Legacy and Transition in Night and Day 3. The Transparent Medium: Anny Thackeray Ritchie 4. Take my lens. I bequeath it to my descendents: Julia Margaret Cameron 5. Closer than any of the Living: Julia Prinsep Stephen 6. Let us be our great grandmothers: Heredity and Legacy in The Years Conclusion: Invisible Presences and Transparent Mediums: Virginia Woolf's nineteenth-century legacies Bibliography Index