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Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears

Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen

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  1. Marion Dell
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: ‘Born into a Large Connection’

    • Marion Dell
    Pages 1-10

  3. ‘And Finally Virginia’: Cameron, Ritchie, Stephen and Woolf’s Constructs of her Ancestry

    • Marion Dell
    Pages 11-19

  4. ‘Knocking at the Door’: Heredity, Legacy and Transition in Night and Day

    • Marion Dell
    Pages 20-37

  5. ‘The Transparent Medium’: Anny Thackeray Ritchie

    • Marion Dell
    Pages 38-71

  6. ‘Take my lens. I bequeath it to my descendents’: Julia Margaret Cameron

    • Marion Dell
    Pages 72-104

  7. ‘Closer than any of the living’: Julia Prinsep Stephen

    • Marion Dell
    Pages 105-133

  8. ‘Let us be our great grandmothers’: Heredity and Legacy in The Years

    • Marion Dell
    Pages 134-157

  9. Conclusion: ‘Invisible Presences’ and ‘Transparent Mediums’: Virginia Woolf’s Nineteenth-Century Legacies

    • Marion Dell
    Pages 158-181

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 182-207
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About this book

Virginia Woolf's Influential Forebears reveals under-acknowledged nineteenth-century legacies which shaped Woolf as a writing woman. Marion Dell identifies significant lines of descent from the lives and works of Woolf's great-aunt Julia Margaret Cameron, the writer she called aunt, Anny Thackeray Ritchie, and her mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen.

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“Virginia Woolf’s ambivalent relationship with her Victorian forebears, particularly the women, is the topic of Marion Dell’s even-handed and beautifully researched monograph. … Perhaps the greatest value of Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears is its close focus on where and how in Woolf’s work the influence of these three women is both present and visible.” (Catherine W. Hollis, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Vol. 97 (2), 2021)

About the author

Marion Dell is an independent writer and lecturer based in the UK, and has previously taught at the Open University. She is the co-author (with Marion Whybrow) of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: Remembering St Ives (2003), and she is currently writing a biography of Julia Stephen.

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