A Sketch of the Past

"A Sketch of the Past"

Author Virginia Woolf
Author	Virginia Woolf
Genre	Autobiographical essay
Publication date	1939

"A Sketch of the Past" is an autobiographical essay written by Virginia Woolf in 1939. It was written as a break from writing her biography of Roger Fry, English artist and critic, and fellow member of the Bloomsbury Group. It was later edited and posthumously published by Leonard Woolf and now can be found in Moments of Being , a collection of her autobiographical writing. ^[1]

References

1. "Autobiographical Fragments: Virginia Woolf's Sketch of the Past". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 2024-11-24.

Further reading

• Cousineau, Diane (1993-01-01). "Virginia Woolf's "A Sketch of the Past": Life-writing, the Body, and the Mirror Gaze" . A/B: Auto/Biography Studies. 8 (1): 51–71. doi:10.1080/08989575.1993.10815033. ISSN   0898-9575.
• Dalgarno, Emily (1994). "Ideology into Fiction: Virginia Woolf's "A Sketch of the Past"" . Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 27 (2): 175–195. doi:10.2307/1345820. ISSN   0029-5132. JSTOR   1345820.
• Freeman, Barbara Claire (September 1997). "Moments of Beating: Addiction and Inscription in Virginia Woolf's "A Sketch of the Past"" . Diacritics. 27 (3): 65–76. doi:10.1353/dia.1997.0022. ISSN   1080-6539.

External links

• Manuscript of Virginia Woolf's unfinished memoir "A Sketch of the Past"
• A Discussion on "A Sketch of the Past"