{"id":1387,"date":"2014-07-10T21:35:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T19:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2017-12-27T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T15:13:25","slug":"becoming-woolf-diaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Lounsberry \u2013 Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tab-1-plinth\">\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2456\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Becoming-Woolf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2456\" src=\"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Becoming-Woolf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Becoming-Woolf.jpg 419w, https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Becoming-Woolf-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Lounsberry, Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read. University Press of Florida, July 2014, 272 pages, ISBN 9780813049915<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf\u2019s diary is her lengthiest and longest-sustained work\u2014and her last to reach the public. In the only full-length book to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf\u2019s development as a writer through her first twelve diaries\u2014a fascinating experimental stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf\u2019s pioneering modernist style can be seen. Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf\u2019s first palm-sized leather diary, \u00ab\u00a0Becoming Virginia Woolf\u00a0\u00bb illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers, Mary Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Woolf\u2019s \u00ab\u00a0diary parents\u00a0\u00bb\u2014Sir Walter Scott and Fanny Burney. These key literary connections open a new and indispensable window onto the story of one of literature\u2019s most renowned modernists.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Lounsberry is professor emerita of English at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction and coeditor of Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf\u2019s development as a writer through her first twelve diaries and the diaries she read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}