Moments of Being
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LC Class | PR6045.O72 Z47 1985 | |
Moments of Being is a collection of posthumously-published autobiographical essays by
Sussex University and in the British Library in London
.
Title
The title for the collection was chosen by its original editor, Jeanne Schulkind, based on a passage from "A Sketch of the Past". As described by Woolf, 'moments of being' are moments in which an individual experiences a sense of reality, in contrast to the states of 'non-being' that dominate most of an individual's conscious life, in which they are separated from reality by a protective covering. Moments of being could be a result of instances of shock, discovery, or revelation.
Contents
Moments of Being consists of five autobiographical essays:
- "Reminiscences" (1907)
- "A Sketch of the Past" (1939–40)
- "22 Hyde Park Gate" (1920–1)
- "Old Bloomsbury" (1921–2)
- "Am I a Snob?" (1936)
"22 Hyde Park Gate", "Old Bloomsbury" and "Am I a Snob?" were written for the Memoir Club, a group formed in 1920 by
Molly MacCarthy
which met to present honest autobiographical papers.