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3 days ago · Adeline Virginia Woolf ( / wʊlf /; [ 2 ] née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
5 days ago · Woolf's objections to Well were not limited to an ostensibly aesthetic sphere; they also highlight crucial differences among women in questions of sexual politics, questions which are ultimately...
3 days ago · Woolf committed suicide by drowning, sixteen years after the publication of Mrs Dalloway. [21] Woolf's original plan for her novel called for Clarissa to kill herself during her party. In this original version, Septimus (whom Woolf called Mrs. Dalloway's "double") did not appear at all. [12]
5 days ago · It is not by accident that one of the characters in Virginia Woolf's first novel The Voyage Out makes the penetrating observation that Jane Austen may be the best woman novelist because she...
Jul 19, 2024 · Mrs. Dalloway, Modernist novel by Virginia Woolf (1925). Written in stream-of-consciousness style, it uses a third-person omniscient narrator to tell the stories of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class socialite, and Septimus Warren Smith, an emotionally ill war veteran.
3 days ago · The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s.
5 days ago · Orlando, novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1928. The fanciful biographical novel pays homage to the family of Woolf’s friend Vita Sackville-West from the time of her ancestor Thomas Sackville (1536–1608) to the family’s country estate at Knole. The manuscript of the book, a present from Woolf.
