Street Haunting and Other Essays - Softcover

"Brilliant and subtle essays" (Independent on Sunday)

"It is all pure Woolf, so distinctive is her voice - ironic, cool, conversational and playful, shrewd and fantastical by turns" (Literary Review)

"Woolf was easily the greatest literary journalist of her age" (James Wood Guardian)

"More like novels than ordinary criticism" (New Statesman)

"Filled with comic spirit...there are some beautiful essays here...and many memorable ones" (Peter Ackroyd New York Times)

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.