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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 .
Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success.
These romantic quotes and quotes about love include short love quotes and quotes about true love to share with your husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend. ... — Virginia Woolf, "Night & Day ...
'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.
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 ...
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.
She left behind a note in which she expressed love for her husband Leonard Woolf and sorrow for the anguish she was causing him. [8] Twenty years later, playwright Edward Albee corresponded with him, asking permission to use his late wife's name in the title of a new play, according to literary critic Leon Edel, an acquaintance of Leonard Woolf ...