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The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s. Although spanning fifty years, the novel is not epic in scope, focusing instead on the small private details of the characters' lives. Except for the first, each ...
The Question of Things Happening: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 2 1913 - 1922 (1976) A Change of Perspective: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 3 1923 - 1928 (1977) A Reflection of the Other Person: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 4 1929 - 1931 (1978) The Sickle Side of the Moon: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 5 1932 - 1935 (1979)
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A cinematic essay in conversation with Woolf’s 1928 satiric fantasy “Orlando: A Biography,” the documentary enlists more than 20 onscreen testifiers to share the role of the novel’s ...
Modern Fiction" is an essay by Virginia Woolf. The essay was published in The Times Literary Supplement on 10 April 1919 as "Modern Novels" then revised and published as "Modern Fiction" in The Common Reader (1925). The essay is a criticism of writers and literature from the previous generation.
[12]: 60 Woolf also intended the novel as compensation for the sense of loss often felt by Sackville-West who lost her beloved childhood home Knole. It went to a cousin and she would have inherited it had she been a man. It is also about her need to hide her sexuality and about the unhappy end of her relationship with Violet Trefusis in 1920.
When Woolf realised the idea of a "novel–essay" wasn't working, she separated the two parts. The non-fiction portion became Three Guineas . The fiction portion became Woolf's most popular novel during her lifetime, The Years , which charts social change from 1880 to the time of publication through the lives of the Pargiter family.
Leonard Woolf and his wife Virginia Woolf in 1912 Government Agent of Anuradhapura District Nissanka Wijeyeratne with Leonard Woolf at Abhayagiri vihāra in 1960. Woolf was born in London in 1880 the third of ten children of Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf (known as Sidney Woolf), a barrister and Queen's Counsel, and Marie (née de Jongh).