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Virginia Woolf & The Raverats: A Different Sort of Friendship

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Writer and critic Virginia Woolf was a close and personal friend of the painter Jacques Raverat and his wife Gwen. Jacques died from multiple sclerosis at the age of 40. In Virginia Woolf & The Raverats: A Different Sort Of Friendship, William Pryor has collected correspondences between Virginia, Jacque and Gwen. These letters embodied gossip, thoughts on the nature of friendship, religion, the endurance of pain, Jacques' anti-Semitism, Virginia's Sapphism, the differences between painting and writing, and other elements of their bohemian life styles. Of special note are the illustrations which include some of Jacques paintings. Unique, informative, compelling reading, Virginia Woolf & The Raverats is especially recommended to students and admirers of Virginia Woolf's literary writings, and offers a very special set of "windows in time" through which we can perceive glimpses of greatness amid the ordinary concerns of specially gifted (and troubled) friends.

Beautiful little book, very well edited and printed, with pictures and photographs. The only thing that I can say againts it is that is too short, if one has read Virgina Woolf letters this book is just a bit more of that, not too many letters from the Raverats to Virginia so one get the impression that one is not not getting much from it, much new I mean... but the outlook of the book and the editing is so nice that at the end its a good purchuase.