Flush. A Biography.

Uncorrected Proof. 12mo. 136pp. Brown card covers printed in red. First publication in Methuen's Venture Library series.

"I lay in the garden and read the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life." Woolf's fictional biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel was what she called 'a little escapade', begun to ease her brain after the strain of the emotionally draining The Waves (1931). For all its fun and frivolity, Flush is none the less a work seriously inclined to mock and question the genre of biography, as did Woolf's earlier, more ambitious, and more widely read jeu d'esprit, Orlando (1928). "[A] little masterpiece of comedy." –Times Literary Supplement

[The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. V. p.161–2]