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Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf. It was published shortly after her death in 1941. Although the manuscript had been completed, Woolf had yet to make final revisions.
Between the Acts. by. Virginia Woolf. 1941. It was a summer's night and they were talking, in the big room with the windows open to the garden, about the cesspool. The county council had promised to bring water to the village, but they hadn't.
Virginia Woolf’s classic modernist novel Mrs Dalloway (1925) is famously set over the course of just one day, in June 1923. But what is less well-known is that Woolf wrote a second novel also set on just one day: her last novel, Between the Acts (1941).
Between the Acts. Virginia Woolf. 3.61. 7,972 ratings675 reviews. In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. A lyrical, moving valedictory.
Between the Acts begins just before the outbreak of WWII, against the backdrop of an annual pageant celebrating British. The central point of the festival is the ancestral Pointz Hall manor belonging to the Oliver family, and in 1939 the festival is as important to the village as ever.
Dive deep into Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
Mar 23, 2016 · Virginia Woolf wrote Between the Acts shortly before she died and against a backdrop of turmoil and war. Today, her final novel is one of her least-known – and most striking.
