In 1917 the couple founded the Hogarth Press, which published much of her work. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, British political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant. He gave Virginia the run of his substantial library bringing her into close contact with a wide range of books from an early age. Her father, Leslie Stephen, who was the founder of the Oxford Dictionary of Biography, was knighted for services to literature. She was born Virginia Adeline Stephen in 1882. But before we get to this novel, let me reveal a few biographical details about Ms Woolf. Time, I thought, to revisit this author for a refreshed view having only read her in my youth – so I took up one of her most notable tomes To the Lighthouse. One of my companions parried with, ‘All authors are an acquired taste.’ Point taken. Talking with a group of book-reading friends I observed that Virginia Woolf was an acquired taste. To The Lighthouse David Stuart Davies looks at the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf’s novels.
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