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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)
Though at least one biography of Virginia Woolf appeared in her lifetime, the first authoritative study of her life was published in 1972 by her nephew Quentin Bell. Hermione Lee's 1996 biography Virginia Woolf [177] provides a thorough and authoritative examination of Woolf's life and work, which she discussed in an interview in 1997. [178]
Between October and December 1932 Woolf wrote six essays and their accompanying fictional "extracts" for The Pargiters. By February 1933, however, she jettisoned the theoretical framework of her "novel-essay" and began to rework the book solely as a fictional narrative, although Anna Snaith argued in her introduction to the Cambridge edition of ...
Woolf fell into a depression [8] before her suicide on 28 March 1941, and the novel was published posthumously later that year. [9] At the time of her death Woolf had yet to correct the typescript of the novel, and a number of critics consider it to be unfinished. [10] The book has a note by Woolf's husband, Leonard Woolf: [6]
The Hours, a 1998 novel by the American writer Michael Cunningham, is a tribute to Virginia Woolf's 1923 work Mrs Dalloway.Cunningham emulates elements of Woolf's writing style while revisiting some of her themes in different settings.
This occurs two months before the author's death. T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster stay in the country with Virginia Woolf and discuss Joyce's Ulysses. [9] September 14 – Sinclair Lewis's satirical novel Babbitt is published by Harcourt, Brace & Company. September 22
The increased security of the Press's fortunes allowed Woolf to write more experimental novels such as The Waves. [23]: 201 Though contemporary critics consider Woolf a better writer, critics in the 1920s viewed Sackville-West as more accomplished, with her books outselling Woolf's by a large margin. [19]: 66–67 [l]
The novel is a departure from Woolf's earlier two novels, The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919), which are more conventional in form and narration. The work is seen as an important modernist text; its experimental form is viewed as a progression of the innovative writing style Woolf presented in her earlier collection of short fiction titled Monday or Tuesday (1919).