Assignment
Taking into consideration all the evidence you have read, which of the biographical excerpts above do you find the most convincing and responsible interpretations of Woolf's encounters with her half-brothers? Why?


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Notes
1 Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (London: Chatto & Windus, 1996), 3.
2 Arnold Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol 1: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 323.
3 Robert D. Richardson Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 3.
4 The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, I: 1888-1912, ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann (London: Hogarth, 1975), 472.
5 Quoted in Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings, ed. Jeanne Schulkind (New York: Triad/Granada, 1976), 161.
6 Moments of Being, 184.
7 The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, II: 1912-1922, ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann (London: Hogarth, 1976), 505.
8 Moments of Being, 79-80.
9 Leave the Letters Till We're Dead: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, VI: 1936-1941, ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann (London: Hogarth, 1980), 459-60.
10 Leonard Woolf, Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911-1918 (New York: Harcourt, 1963), 159.
11 Aileen Pippett, The Moth and the Star: A Biography of Virginia Woolf (New York: Little, Brown, 1953), vii.
12 Pippett, 9-10.
13 Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, 2 vols (London: Hogarth, 1972), I, 42-4.
14 Roger Poole, The Unknown Virginia Woolf (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978), 24-5.
15 Poole, 26-7.
16 Poole, 29.
17 Lyndall Gordon, Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (New York: Norton, 1984), 4.
18 Gordon, 9.
19 Gordon, 44-5.
20 Gordon, 101.
21 Gordon, 118-20.
22 Louise DeSalvo, Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work (London: Women's Press, 1989), 101.
23 DeSalvo, 104-5.
24 DeSalvo, 108.
25 DeSalvo, 113-4.
26 DeSalvo, 119.
27 DeSalvo, 123.
28 Quentin Bell, Elders and Betters (London: John Murray, 1995), 45-6.
29 Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (London: Chatto and Windus, 1996), 126-7.
30 Lee, 155.
31 Lee, 156.
32 Lee, 157-8.
33 Nigel Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage (New York:Atheneum, 1973).
34 Nigel Nicolson, Virginia Woolf (New York: Viking Penguin, 2000), 11-13.