Virginia Woolf : the impact of childhood sexual abuse on her life and work

DeSalvo, Louise A. 1942-2018 (author.).

Summary: Describes the abuse inflicted upon the novelist from her Victorian family where sexual violence was common.

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ISBN: 0807063266
ISBN: 9780807063262
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [1989]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-366) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part one -- A Family pattern -- Laura, "Her Ladyship of the lake" -- Stella, "The Old cow" -- Vanessa, "The Sainat" -- Part two -- Virginia Woolf and childhood -- A Daughter remembers -- In the house of the paterfamilias -- In the beginning there was the nursery -- Part three- Virginia Woolf and adolescence -- 1897: Virginia Woolf at fifteen -- As Miss Jan says -- Changing lives -- Epilogue.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also issued online.

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