Devil Drives, the - Fawn Brodie

Biography and autobiography are supposed to be two different things. In one, you’re writing about someone else; in the other, you’re writing about yourself. In fact, I think they’re far closer than is usually recognized and many, perhaps most biographers are really writing about themselves under the guise of writing about someone else. One of the clearest proofs of that I’ve ever come across are these comments by the writer Hermione Lee on her subject Virginia Woolfe: "There's an accepted image of Virginia Woolf as a frail, spoilt, delicate lady novelist, insulated from the real world ... I don't accept that. ...  Read the complete review