Hyde Park Gate News: The Stephen Family Newspaper (Modern Fiction) [Paperback]

Vanessa Bell (Author), Hermione Lee (Foreword)

Book Description

Series: Modern Fiction | Publication Date: March 1, 2007

As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby Stephen collaborated on their very own family newspaper. Published here, Hyde Park Gate News includes the original drawings as well as previously unpublished photographs from the family albums. Ingeniously mimicking the style of the leading newspapers of their day, the Stephen children present a charming and candid portrayal of the day-to-day events at their family home in London and at their holiday home in St Ives. Gossipy, playful, and at times irreverent, they record the comings and goings of a host of figures, George Meredith and Henry James among them, while also proffering their own fictional, poetic, and artistic creations. Acclaimed for her innovative style, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is one of the most important figures of the Modernist movement; her sister Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) was a painter and a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group.

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About the Author

Acclaimed for her innovative and inventive style, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is one of the most important figures of the Modernist Movement; her elder sister Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was a painter and a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group. Foreword writer Hermione Lee is the acclaimed Virginia Woolf scholar and the author of Virginia Woolf (Knopf, 1997) Gill Lowe (Editor)is a Senior Teaching Practitioner at Suffolk College, UEA. Her specialist areas are auto/biography, children's literature and issues of adaptation. Working for her M.A. in 'Life-writing' at U.E.A. she began to research the life of Julia Jackson/ Duckworth/ Stephen. This involved close study of the manuscript of 'Hyde Park Gate News'. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Hesperus Press (March 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843911418
• ISBN-13: 978-1843911418
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,056,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels.