Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few
pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last
decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of articles,
of which this selection offers a fascinating glimpse, which display the
gifts of a dazzling social and literary critic as well as the
development of a brilliant and influential novelist. From reflections on
class and education, to slyly ironic reviews, musings on the lives of
great men and 'Street Haunting', a superlative tour of her London
neighbourhood, this is Woolf at her most thoughtful and entertaining.