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The Waves is a 1931 novel by English novelist Virginia Woolf.It is critically regarded as her most experimental work, [1] consisting of ambiguous and cryptic soliloquies spoken mainly by six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis. [2]
A portrait of Woolf by Roger Fry c. 1917 Lytton Strachey and Woolf at Garsington, 1923 Virginia Woolf 1927 Woolf is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century novelists. [ 164 ] A modernist , she was one of the pioneers of using stream of consciousness as a narrative device , alongside contemporaries such as Marcel Proust , [ 165 ...
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend. It is arguably one of her most popular novels, a history of English literature in satiric form.
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. It was so popular, in fact, that pocket-sized editions of the novel were published for soldiers as leisure reading during World War II .
The Flight of the Mind: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 1 1888 - 1912 (1975) 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)
Virginia Woolf wrote Fry's biography, but with the coming of war again her mental instability recurred, and she drowned herself in 1941. [42] In the previous decade she had become one of the century's most famous feminist writers with three more novels, and a series of essays including the moving late memoir "A Sketch of the Past".
The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life. St. John Hirst is a fictional portrayal of Lytton Strachey, and Helen Ambrose is, to some extent, inspired by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. [7]
The Hogarth Press is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that was founded as an independent company in 1917 by British authors Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in Richmond (then in Surrey and now in London ), in which they began hand-printing books as a hobby during the interwar period .