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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Question 1 of 10: Virginia Woolf was the daughter of which 19th century philosopher, critic and biographer?a) John Ruskin (0)b) Thomas Huxley (0)c) Leslie Stephen (1)d) Thomas Carlyle (0)Question 2 of 10:At what age did Woolf first start contributing work to the Times Literary Supplement?a)...
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...
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.
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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