...This chapter narrates Virginia Woolf's life following her father Leslie Stephen's death. Though devastated by his death, the young Virginia would move on from a repressive household in Hyde Park Gate to the more enlightened Bloomsbury Group—a circle of intellectuals within which she was able...

...This chapter explores Woolf's struggles with mental instability vis-à-vis her work as a writer. Virginia Woolf had strived to maintain her public persona as a respected author, surrounded and perhaps even shielded by the intelligentsia of the Bloomsbury Group, even as she strove to maintain...

... the Isle of Man. An aspiring poet, Barry attracted the attention of Ezra Pound and joined a demimonde of Bloomsbury figures, including Ford Maddox Ford, T. S. Eliot, Arthur Waley, Edith Sitwell, and William Butler Yeats. She fell in love with Pound's eccentric fellow Vorticist, Wyndham Lewis, and had two...