Portraits of women

Portraits of Women collects two essays by Virginia Woolf: “Julia Margaret Cameron" (1926) and "Ellen Terry" (1941). In both of these texts, Virginia Woolf was able to capture the liveliness, audacity, intelligence and inventiveness of two exceptional women: Ellen Terry, a remarkable English actress, known in particular for her roles in Shakespeare's plays and appreciated by Woolf, as well as Julia Margaret Cameron, the famous photographer. Virginia Woolf, Ellen Terry, Julia Margaret Cameron, writer, theatre actress, photographer : three women who have literature in common, three women who have words in common wrap like the sails in which some of the models are wrapped who pose for Julia Margaret Cameron. With these two portraits, Virginia Woolf therefore returns to the life and work of two exceptional female artists and incomparable ones that have left a lasting mark on their time.