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...doubt derives from her deep attachments to select females. In another relationship with a rival female author. Katharine Mansfield, however. Virginia exposed the malice and narcissism native to her character, qualities she shared with her father. Their friendship was compounded on both sides of feelings of jealousy and attraction. Woolf, with her deep sense of class, occasionally considered Mansfield, who dressed and behaved, she thought, like a tart, only worthy of her pity, though she also admired her art. Most observers, including Bell, agree that as Virginia Woolf's reputation increased, so did her malice...
...Virginia made what Bell simply calls "the wisest decision in her life." She accepted Leonard Woolf's marriage proposal. For his wife, Leonard surrendered an extremely successful career in Ceylonese colonial administration, and she, in turn, overcame her fears of intimacy for Leonard. Much in the same manner as George Lewes upheld George Eliot so was Leonard indispensable in his wife's career. Without his steady, competent encouragement, she would not have become a major celebrity, and without Virginia to care for, Leonard might have commanded much more of the limelight...
According to Bell, the symptoms Virginia exhibited in her mad states were manic-depressive. Any student of A Writer's Diary knows of her precarious mental stability, but most, commentators have hesitated to define her sickness in medical terms. Michelangelo, Samuel Butler, Honore Balzac, and Robert Schumann share with Woolf manic-depressive disorders not unfamiliar to professional creative egos. Interestingly, Bell notes that his subject was never psychoanalyzed, though he doubts such treatment could have lured...
...autobiography, Downhill All the Way, Leonard Woolf remembers...
...know the psyche of Virginia Woolf, and this is what she is in effect asking of a biographer, one would have to be either God or Virginia, preferably...