Reading and Writing Skills for

Students of Literature in English:

Modernism and Modernity
Enric Monforte
Jacqueline Hurtley
Bill Phillips
Virginia Woolf

A Room of
One’s Own
(1929)

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

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 Virginia Woolf

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Painting of Virginia Woolf by her

sister Vanessa Bell.
 1891-1904
• Writes stories for The Hyde Park Gate News
• 1895 Death of his mother—First serious
mental breakdown
• 1897 Death of her half-sister Stella
• 1904 Death of her father—Second mental
breakdown
• Virginia and her sisters and brothers move to
Bloomsbury
 The Bloomsbury Group
• Clive Bell (1881-1964): art critic
• Vanessa (Stephen) Bell (1879-1961): painter
• Roger Fry (1866-1934): art critic and painter
• Duncan Grant (1885-1978): painter
• John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946):
economist
• Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952): journalist
and editor
 The Bloomsbury Group

• Thoby Stephen (1880-1906): the Cambridge

connection
• Adrian Stephen (1883-1948): psychoanalyst
• Lytton Strachey (1880-1932): historian
• Saxon Sydney Turner (1880-1962): civil
servant
• Leonard Woolf (1880-1969): writer, publisher
and civil servant
 The Bloomsbury Group

• Virginia (Stephen) Woolf (1882-1941): writer

and publisher
• E.M.Forster (1879-1970): novelist and
publisher
 The Bloomsbury group

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Clive Bell and Vanessa (Stephen) Bell

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Roger Fry (Self-Portrait); Duncan Grant; John Maynard Keynes

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Desmond MacCarthy; Thoby Stephen; Adrian

Stephen by Duncan Grant
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Lytton Strachey; Saxon Sydney Turner; Leonard

Woolf by Henry Lamb
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Virginia Woolf and E.M.Forster

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 1904-1912
• 1905 Begins contributing
to the Times Literary
Supplement.
• 1906-1909 Deaths of his
brother Thoby and his
aunt Caroline E. Stephen
• Starts working on her first
novel The Voyage Out
• 1912 Marries Leonard
Woolf
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Virginia and Leonard

Woolf's
Wedding Day, 10
August 1912
 Monk’s House
(East Sussex)

Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived

here together from 1919 until her
suicide in 1941; Leonard remained
in the home until his death in 1969
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Left, Virginia's writing lodge at the

rear of the Monk's House property

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Monk’s House (East Sussex)

Virginia Woolf's
writing lodge
 1936 Serious mental
breakdown

1941 Commits suicide

Colour Print of Virginia Woolf taken by

Gisèle Freund (1939)

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 Virginia Woolf’s works
• The Voyage Out (1915)
• Night and Day (1919)
• Jacob’s Room (1922)
• Mrs Dalloway & The Common Reader: First Series (1925)
• To the Lighthouse (1927)
• Orlando (1928)
• A Room of One’s Own (1929)
• The Waves (1931)
• The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)
• Flush (1933)
• The Years (1937)
• Three Guineas (1938)
• Between the Acts (1941)
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