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She is a critic and biographer who has published books on elizabeth bowen, philip roth, willa cather, and virginia woolf. Woolfs story is reformulated by each generation, writes hermione lee, a professor of english literature. Hermione lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the englishspeaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of edith wharton and virginia woolf. Virginia woolf s garden the story of the garden at monk s.
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