Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
Revue de presse
'Always endearingly aware of its own consequence, [Hyde Park Gate News] has now achieved the adult dignity of publication, meticulously edited by Gill Lowe and gracefully presented.' --Times Literary Supplement
'Hyde Park Gate News is a rollicking account of late Victorian family life at 22 Hyde Park Gate, the staid Stephen family home in Kensington... What begins as a childish pastiche filled with sketches, letters of advice and riddles for the inmates of 22 Hyde Park Gate becomes a young writer s primer. It s no wonder biographers trace Woolf s preoccupation with loss and longing to her reportage as a ten-year-old... Hedged by grief, Woolf and Bell later remembered their home as tangled and matted with emotion . But the Hyde Park Gate News records a bustling and happy household. Perhaps it is the not knowing which beguiles here a chronicle of joyful family life perfectly preserved in an crystal paperweight, captivating and fresh as the moment it was inked in the day nursery.' --Time Out
'a charming edition... this deserves its place, not because scholars need it but because it is fun.' --Jeanette Winterson
Biographie de l'auteur
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'.
