Product Description

As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. They called the paper 'Hyde Park Gate News', and the original manuscripts are published here for the first time. Ingeniously mimicking the style of the leading newspapers of their day, the Stephen children present a charming and candid portrayal of life in London and at their holiday home in St Ives. Gossipy, playful and at times irreverent, they record the comings and goings of a host of figures - George Meredith and Henry James among them - whilst also proffering their own fictional and poetic creations. Not only a delightful account of childhood, Hyde Park Gate News also gives a unique insight into the early years of some of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century whilst revealing the events that inspired and shaped Woolf's apprenticeship in writing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #213887 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 250 pages

From the Publisher
Published here for the first time the original manuscript of Hyde Park Gate News, a newspaper written by Virginia, Vanessa and Thoby as children, a unique insight into the early years of some of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century. This special gift edition includes the original drawings by the Stephen children, and previously unpublished photographs from the family albums.

From the Author
'Hyde Park Gate News' doesn’t only provide raw material for Virginia Woolf’s novels; it also shows, in its vivid, ebullient, attentive flow of comment, early symptoms of one of the world’s great diary-writers.

Hermione Lee

About the Author
Acclaimed for her innovative and inventive style, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is one of the most important figures of the Modernist Movement; her elder sister Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was a painter and a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group. Foreword writer Hermione Lee is the acclaimed Virginia Woolf scholar and the author of Virginia Woolf (Knopf, 1997) Gill Lowe (Editor)is a Senior Teaching Practitioner at Suffolk College, UEA. Her specialist areas are auto/biography, children's literature and issues of adaptation. Working for her M.A. in 'Life-writing' at U.E.A. she began to research the life of Julia Jackson/ Duckworth/ Stephen. This involved close study of the manuscript of 'Hyde Park Gate News'.