Author Info

1882-1941. Bloomsbury group. Vita Sackville-West. Hogarth

Press 1917.The Common Reader,collection of essays.
Three Guineas(1938).
Virginia Woolf
Described novels as “not form which
you see but emotion which you feel”
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"Modern Fiction" W 1919; P 1921

The Voyage Out 1915

Night and Day 1919

Monday or Tuesday 1921

Jacob's Room 1922

"Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown" 1924

Mrs Dalloway 1925

To the Lighthouse 1927

 Orlando: A Biography 1928

A Room of One's Own 1929

The Waves 1931

"Professions for Women" 1931

The Common Reader 1925; 1932

Between the Acts 1941

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Criticizes H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy. Defines the
task of the novelist as looking within, as conveying the mind receiving
"a myriad impressions," as representing the "luminous halo" or "semi-
transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of
consciousness to the end."

First novel. Conventional realism. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South

America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-
discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. Clarrisa Dalloway is
introduced.

Conventional realism. Set in Edwardian London, contrasts the daily

lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine
Hilbery and Mary Datchet. 

Short-story collection. "The Mark on the Wall" [Her first short story,
earlier published in Two Stories, 1917]

Around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is

presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters
have of Jacob.

Woolf addresses what she sees as the arrival of modernism, with the
much cited phrase "that on or about December 1910 human
character changed", referring to Roger Fry's exhibition Manet and the
Post-Impressionists. She argued that this in turn led to a change in
human relations, and thence to change in "religion, conduct, politics,
and literature". She envisaged modernism as inherently unstable, a
society and culture in flux.

Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and
the unfinished "The Prime Minister".

Ramsay family and their visits to thier summer home in the Hebrides,
on the Isle of Skye (Scotland) between 1910 and 1920. Multiple
focalization. {The lighthouse does not symbolize: change in the
unchanging world. Incorrect answers: permanence at the heart of
change; celebration of life in the heart of death; celebration of order
in chaos}
{Tripartite: The Window; Time Passes; The Lighthouse}
The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from
man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of
English literary history [which it satirizes]. Marries Marmaduke
Bonthrop Shelmerdine. Ends on midnight Oct. 11, 1928.

Judith Shakespeare. History of women's writing. While foregrounding

the marginal presence of women in history, refers to G. M.
Trevelyan's History of England

Most experimental work and consists of soliloquies spoken by the

book's six characters.
Abbreviated speech. “Killing the Angel in the House, was part of the
occupation of a woman writer.”

Collection of essays penned by Woolf for what she saw as the

common reader. An informal, informative and witty celebration of
our literary and social heritage. Indebted to Johnson's Lives of Poets
[essay on Gray]

Final novel. Describes the mounting, performance and audience of a

play at a festival in a small English village, just before the outbreak of
the Second World War.