[Commlist] New Book: Virginia Woolf, journalist

*New Book: Virginia Woolf, journalist*

*Virginia Woolf, journalist. The little-known story of emancipation 
through journalism/ Maria Santos-Sainz/Editions Apogée*

ISBN electronic:
978-2-84398-866-0
Publication date: January 2025

Virginia Woolf, journalist
By Maria Santos-Sainz
Editions Apogée

Summary

Although Virginia Woolf is well known as a novelist, essayist and 
editor, her career as a journalist has been overshadowed in most 
biographies and studies of her. Yet journalism played a crucial role in 
her literary career and, as a school of writing, helped to shape her 
style and approach to certain themes that she would later develop in her 
works. It's a profession she discovered at a very young age. At the age 
of 9 she founded and edited the family newspaper, the Hyde Park Gate 
News. In 1904, aged 22, she began working as a freelance literary 
journalist.

Her first article was a feature on the Brönte sisters for The Guardian. 
Journalism gave her the emancipation she had always dreamed of, giving 
her independence, 'a room of her own'. She became a journalist long 
before she published her first novel, The Crossing of Appearances 
(1915). Virginia Woolf published numerous articles in a wide range of 
media, both in England and the United States.

*Table of Contents and Downloading Link: 
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Contents

Chapter 1- A CHILDHOOD AT HYDE PARK GATE
1- A unique education
2- An authoritarian father
3- The Stephen family diary
4- Turning experiences into words
5- The replica of the Hyde Park News: the Charleston Bulletin

Chapter 2 - A JOURNALIST NAMED VIRGINIA WOOLF
1- Report on the Brontë sisters
2- The media she collaborates with
3- A radio broadcast on the BBC
4- The controversy of writing for Vogue
5- Money and a room of one's own
6- The constraints of the profession
7- Journalism as a writing laboratory

Chapter 3- ESSAYS AND LITERARY CRITICISM
1- The art of the journalistic essay
2- Rewriting and reworking
3- On the work of literary criticism
4- Elitist journalism?

CHAPTER 4 - THE MEDIA STRANGLEHOLD
1- Journalism, from father to daughter
2- An intellectual heritage
3- Leonard Woolf, journalist and political activist
4- Bloomsbury and the press
5- Editor at Hogarth Press

CHAPTER 5 - THE JOURNALIST AND POLITICS
1-History of a ambivalent activist
2- A fight for feminism
3- Articles against the war
4- A committed journalist-writer?

List of selected articles
Biographical references
Selective bibliography
Acknowledgements

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