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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. [ 162 ] A modernist , she was one of the pioneers of using stream of consciousness as a narrative device , alongside contemporaries such as Marcel Proust , [ 163 ...
Plath's illness and suicide have spawned many articles in scientific journals, but almost all have been focused on issues of psychodynamic explanation and have been unsuccessful in dealing directly with the clinical history and diagnosis. Undeniably, the view has been broadly proliferated that hers was a typical Bipolar disorder. [8]
On Being Ill is an essay by Virginia Woolf, which seeks to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. Woolf writes about the isolation, loneliness, and vulnerability that disease may bring and how it can make even the maturest of adults feel like children again. [1]
He struggles with mental issues such as anxiety and depression, and has admitted to being addicted to drugs. His 1994 hit song, “Basket Case” was written about his issues with anxiety disorder and depression. Fiona Apple (born 1977), American singer-songwriter ("Criminal", "Paper Bag", "Fast as You Can"). She struggles with obsessive ...
In 1920, women won the right to vote with the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In 1929, English writer Virginia Woolf published her landmark essay, A Room of One’s Own ...
Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in 1933. Written after the completion of her emotionally draining The Waves , the work returned Woolf to the imaginative consideration of English history that she had begun in ...
'Cocktails With George and Martha' examines what it means to live as husband and wife, and how 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' kicked down staid cultural depictions of marriage.
All three sources have written to Woolf asking for financial donations. What she donates, though, is her advice and philosophy. Woolf was eager to tie the issues of war and feminism together in what she saw as a crucial point in history. She and her husband Leonard had visited both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the early part of the decade. [6]