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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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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Introduction: Born into a Large Connection
1. And Finally Virginia: Cameron, Ritchie, Stephen and Woolf's constructs of her ancestry
2. Knocking at the Door: Heredity, Legacy and Transition in
3. The Transparent Medium: Anny Thackeray Ritchie
4. Take my lens. I bequeath it to my descendents: Julia Margaret Cameron
5. Closer than any of the Living: Julia Prinsep Stephen
6. Let us be our great grandmothers: Heredity and Legacy in
Conclusion: Invisible Presences and Transparent Mediums: Virginia Woolf's nineteenth-century legacies
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