Rural Hours - The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner Rosamond

Fluid, engaging ... Rural Hours brings the much-loved country places of all three writers vividly back to life ... Baker really excels in capturing that elusive sense of place>

About the author

Harriet Baker has written for the London Review of Books, the Paris Review, the New Statesman, the TLS, Apollo and frieze. She read English at Oxford and holds a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London. In 2018, she was awarded the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize. She lives in Bristol.

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An outstanding piece of literary scholarship ... A biography that is far more intimate than most ... By choosing to embrace the daily routines of rural life, Baker proposes, these women found that the quality of their attention shifted ... Rural Hours is also a provocation to the present. No one could finish this book without concluding that the most important thing to any writer is solitude ... [It] reminds us that today we too often fail to afford our writers this necessity Charlotte Stroud Financial Times

Product details

• Authors: Harriet Baker
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9780141998596
• ISBN: 978-0-14-199859-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; England, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Rural communities, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000