{"id":17540,"date":"2023-07-02T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17540"},"modified":"2024-01-12T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:30:59","slug":"the-diary-of-virginia-woolf-review-a-book-for-the-ages-virginia-woolf-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17540","title":{"rendered":"The Diary of Virginia Woolf \u2013 a book for the ages &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">says Woolf&#8217;s biographer (amongst other things!), Hermione Lee, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/jun\/22\/the-diary-of-virginia-woolf-review-a-book-for-the-ages\">her fine review<\/a> in <em>The Guardian<\/em> to coincide with a <a href=\"https:\/\/granta.com\/products\/the-diary-of-virginia-woolf-volume-1\/\">new publication by Granta<\/a> of <em>The Diary of Virginia Woolf<\/em>. In their original five volumes as edited by Anne Olivier Bell they each have a new introduction, the first by her daughter, Virginia Nicholson (others include Olivia Laing and Siri Hustvedt). They look very lovely indeed but are pricey at \u00a330 a pop. I am content enough with my now a couple of decades old, not-so-well bound, much read, US trade copies &#8211; I think!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To quote Hermione Lee:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[&#8230;]The diary is an unmatchable record of her times, a gallery of vividly observed individuals, an intimate and courageous self-examination, a revelation of a writer\u2019s creative processes, a tender, watchful nature journal, and a meditation on life, love, marriage, friendship, solitude, society, time and mortality. It\u2019s one of the greatest diaries ever written [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<cite>The Diary of Virginia Woolf review \u2013 The Guardian &#8211; Thu 22 Jun 2023<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What Lee says are extraordinarily (a superlative suggestive of my very much not false modesty) ideas that I, too, have had, and said, and even written about. A &#8220;memory book&#8221; she calls Woolf\u2019s diary &#8211; I love that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>says Woolf&#8217;s biographer (amongst other things!), Hermione Lee, in her fine review in The Guardian to coincide with a new publication by Granta of The Diary of Virginia Woolf. In their original five volumes as edited by Anne Olivier Bell they each have a new introduction, the first by her daughter, Virginia Nicholson (others include &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Diary of Virginia Woolf \u2013 a book for the ages &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[472,71,136],"class_list":["post-17540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virginia-woolf","tag-granta","tag-hermione-lee","tag-virginia-woolf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17668,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions\/17668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}