Virginia Woolf

Alexandra Harris studied at Oxford and at the Courtauld Institute in London, and worked at Christie's for a year before returning to Oxford to write a doctorate on art and literature in the 1930s. She is now a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, running courses on Modernism and American writing, and leading the MA in Contemporary Literature. Her first full-length book, Romantic Moderns, was the winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award. Alexandra Harris was also a winner in the BBC's 'New Generation Thinkers' contest in 2011.

• Foreword • 1. Victorians (1882–1895) • 2. Getting Through (1896–1904) 3. Setting Up (1905–1915) • 4. Making a Mark (1916–1922) • 5. ‘Drawn on and on’ (1923–1925) • 6. ‘This is It’ (1925–1927) • 7. A Writer’s Holiday (1927–1928) • 8. Voices (1929–1931) 9. The Argument of Art (1934–1938) • 10. Sussex (1938–1941) • Afterwards

'A masterclass in the art of slimming down scholarship without dumbing it down … armed with the insights from this most enjoyable text, I can’t wait to go back to the novels and try again' - Sussex Life