Modernism and Mobility: The Passport and Cosmopolitan Experience by Bridget T. Chalk (review)
Despite these flaws, Forrester should be commended for attempting to produce a portrait based almost entirely on primary sources, one that tries to get back to the essence of Woolf in her own words. One wishes, however, that she had not approached her work with quite so many axes to grind. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait may, however, model an interesting possibility for future Woolf scholarship: if Forrester's impressionistic, dreamlike prose, so clearly intended to resemble Woolf's, could be fused with a finely-tuned attention to the body of Woolf scholarship, then a highly invigorating and unique kind of critical prose might result, one that even Woolf herself might approve.