A pocket edition reissue of six essays by Virginia Woolf examining lesser-known female writers including Madame de Sévigné, Sara Coleridge, Dorothy Osborne, Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Geraldine Jewsbury. Woolf’s critical portraits combine intimacy and sharp humor in her assessment of these figures, offering incisive observations on their literary voices and personal contradictions. Translated from English and prefaced by Maxime Rovere, this Rivages poche edition makes Woolf’s influential feminist literary criticism accessible to contemporary readers, situating her work within the canon of cultural-historical reflection on women’s intellectual labor and aesthetic practice.
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