About the Author

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a celebrated novelist, essayist and critic, and a significant figure in the ‘Bloomsbury Group’ of artists and writers. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she is best remembered for her novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To The Lighthouse (1927), and the feminist classic A Room of One’s Own (1929).

 

Hermione Lee is President of Wolfson College, Oxford. She is the author of critically acclaimed works on Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton. Her most recent book is Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life.