Passionate Apprentice

A Passionate Apprentice comprises the first years of Virginia Woolf''s Journal - from 1879 to 1909. Beginning in early January, when Woolf was almost fifteen, the pages open at a time when she was slowly recovering from a period of madness following her mother''s death in May 1895. Between this January and the autumn of 1904, Woolf would suffer the deaths of her half-sister and of her father, an...