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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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Author Biography

Name: Virginia Stephen Woolf
Birth Date: January 25, 1882
Death Date: March 28, 1941
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: Lewes, Sussex, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: novelist, critic, essayist

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Biography of Virginia Stephen Woolf
1089 words, approx. 3.6 pages
The English novelist, critic, and essayist Virginia Stephen Woolf (1882-1941) ranks as one of England's most distinguished writers of the period between World War I and World War II. Her novels can perhaps best be described as impressionistic. Dissatisfi...
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Biography of Virginia Stephen Woolf
10617 words, approx. 35.4 pages
The writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary establishment. She was, as she herself put it, always a hare a long...
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Biography of (Adeline) Virginia Woolf
9348 words, approx. 31.2 pages
The writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary establishment. She was, as she herself put it, always a hare a long...
 


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To the Lighthouse Summary
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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882. Her family belonged to Victorian London’s upper-middle-class intellectual elite; her father, Leslie Stephen, was an important biographer and first...
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To the Lighthouse Information
1,792 words, approx. 6 pages
To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. The freely, multiply discursive tale centers on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of...


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The Boston Globe
Open Lighthouses
08/03/1989: 851 words, approx. 3 pages
WANDERING Ahoy there! Lovers of antique lighthouses! This Monday more than a dozen historic New England lighthouses are open to the public to celebrate the Bicentennial of the US Coast Guard Lighthouse Service. These range from the tall, white, majestic lighthouses such as...
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Sea Classics
Lighthouse Adventure
12/01/2006: 312 words, approx. 1 pages
The last Delaware Bay Lighthouse adventure, sponsored by the Cape May, New Jersey Center for the Arts, took place on 9 September. The trip aboard the Cape May Whaler took its passengers by nine lighthouses. They included the 157-ft Cape May lighthouse, built...
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AP Features
War and peace embodied in stamps commemorating Pacific lighthouses
6/19/2007: 580 words, approx. 2 pages
George Larsen jumped out of bed and pulled on his jeans, thinking an earthquake was shaking Hawaii's Diamond Head lighthouse, where he worked as a Coast Guard radioman.But it wasn't nature: War arrived that Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, as Japanese bombers swept in to...
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AP News
Lighthouse stamps tell of history
6/19/2007: 580 words, approx. 2 pages
George Larsen jumped out of bed and pulled on his jeans, thinking an earthquake was shaking Hawaii's Diamond Head lighthouse, where he worked as a Coast Guard radioman.But it wasn't nature: War arrived that Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, as Japanese bombers swept in to...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Rebecca Saunders
11,501 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Saunders discusses Woolf's style in To the Lighthouse and its relation to the notion of self that she constructs.
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Critical Essay by Martha C. Nussbaum
11,057 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, which was originally presented at the Seventeenth International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg/Wechsel, Austria, in 1994, Nussbaum discusses the ability of people to know and understand the minds of others as Woolf sets forth her theory in To the Lighthouse.
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Critical Essay by John Edward Hardy
10,560 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Hardy argues that Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay represent the “Masculine Principle and the Feminine Principle” and, as such, symbolize the tension between subject and object and their respective places in reality.
 
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To the Lighthouse
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Third section as the befitting conclusion of the novel, "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf.
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Woolf's Time
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The importance of time in "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf


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