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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. [ 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 ...
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. [1] The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge.
Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England . The working title of Mrs Dalloway was The Hours .
She envisaged modernism as inherently unstable, a society and culture in flux. She develops her argument through the examination of two generations of writers. Bennett was a critic of not just Woolf, but modern writers in general. In particular, he challenged modern writers' depiction of "reality". [6] Woolf throws out a challenge to Bennett:
She denounces the essay because it is only concerned with "the daughters of educated men", seeing Woolf's criticisms as irrelevant to most women because her wealth and aristocratic ancestry means she is "insulated by class". [7] Elsewhere Three Guineas was better received. Woolf reports a favourable response in her diary of 7 May 1938.
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.
Portrait of Virginia Woolf, British author and feminist. The nonlinear narrative unfolds primarily through the perspectives of three women across three decades, with each woman somehow affected by Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. [1] In 1923 Richmond, London, author Virginia Woolf writes Mrs. Dalloway and struggles with
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]