Virginia Woolf
(1882 - 1941)
English novelist, critic, essayist, short story writer, diarist, autobiographer, and biographer.
Virginia Woolf: Introduction
Virginia Woolf: Principal Works
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Biography EssayThe 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...
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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 pe...
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English writer Virginia Woolf was one of the most innovative and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. A prolific author of essays, journals, letters, and long and short fiction, she ...
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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....
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Virginia Woolf is known primarily as a novelist rather than as an essayist, although she was a prolific writer of essays. Indeed, one of her advocates has gone so far as to say that her reputation as ...
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Although Virginia Woolf published only eighteen works of short fiction, she was engaged in writing short stories, sketches, and even experimental prose poems throughout her writing career. Recent rese...
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In the following essay, Woolf reflects on the ways in which being ill altered her perspective on life as well as her approach to reading works of literature.
Considering how common illness is, how tre...
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In the following essay, Fromm responds to critics who see Virginia Woolf's writing as characteristically "sexless. "
Since the publication in 1941 of her last novel, Between the A...
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In the following excerpt, Kurtz considers the symbolism of windows and mirrors in Woolf's later short fiction.
Windows and mirrors play as compelling a part in the later fiction of Virginia Woo...
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In the following essay, Oxindine links the homoerotic and epiphanic moments in “Slater's Pins Have No Points.”
You remember there is a very fine instinct wireless telepathy nothin...
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In the following essay, Tremper investigates the influence of William Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes on Woolf's “The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn.”
Here are the poets f...
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In the following essay, Rosenfeld juxtaposes the style and themes of the two pieces collected in Two Stories: “The Mark on the Wall,” and Leonard Woolf's “Three Jews.ȁ...
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In the following essay, Benzel speculates about the origin, creation, and revision of “Kew Gardens.”
In Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours, he describes a park that his characte...
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In the following essay, de Gay traces the revision of “The Searchlight” into “A Scene from the Past,” and contends that the final version deserves more critical attention t...
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In the following essay, Westman maintains that “Friendships Gallery” best represents Woolf's development of a “new ‘art’ of biography that could negotiate the...
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In the following essay, Besnault-Levita analyzes Woolf's use of the pronoun “it” in her short fiction and explores “the implicit theories of meaning and interpretation behi...
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In the following essay, Schröder explores elements of anti-Semitism in Woolf's short story “The Duchess and the Jeweller” and Leonard Woolf's “Three Jews....
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In the following excerpt, Henry investigates the influence of Bertrand Russell's theories of material phenomena on her “Solid Objects.”
Bertrand Russell and Woolf's “...
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In the following essay, Levy argues that “The Watering Place,” “The Ladies Lavatory,” and “The Cook” reveal Woolf's exploration of the “fricativ...
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In the following essay, Narey views “The Mark on the Wall” as an “artistic manifesto” of time and perspective influenced by the theories of Albert Einstein.
James Naremore&...
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In the following essay, Clements regards “Slater's Pins Have No Points” as an “emblematic representation” of difficulties faced by lesbian writers and focuses ȁ...
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In the following essay, Cyr explores the meaning of the mark in “The Mark on the Wall” and debates the sense of closure in the story.
Virginia Woolf's “The Mark on the Wall...
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In the following essay, Newman assesses Woolf's success as a storyteller, concluding that her stories “fail to satisfy the reader's desire for certainty.”
But what are stor...
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In the following essay, Greene assesses the influence of Thomas Browne on Woolf's fiction, particularly “The Mark on the Wall.”
As Woolf refashioned her early empirical realism in...
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In the following essay, Séllei finds thematic and stylistic similarities in “The Mark on the Wall,” “Kew Gardens,” and “An Unwritten Novel.”
“[Y...
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In the following essay, Blackmer analyzes the lesbian-themed short stories of Woolf and Gertrude Stein to gain insight into their “distinctive approaches to creating lesbian modernist literatur...
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In the following essay, Lackey perceives “A Simple Melody” to be a transitional work in Woolf's short fiction oeuvre and examines her portrayal of male atheism in the story.
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Confrontation of Gender Roles in the Works of Mill, Tennyson, and Woolf
Although women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries faced oppression and unequal treatment, some people strove to ch...
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"Often one has to make do with seeds; the germs of what might have been, had one's life been different. I pigeonhole `fishing' thus with other momentary glimpses; like those rapid glances, for exampl...
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As a popular female novelist during the early 1900's in America, Virginia Woolf is given such great acknowledgements and invitations to exclusive junctions of high society, being the wealthy white men...
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Throughout time, the treatment of women has varied tremendously. In some of history's greatest civilizations, women were seen as equal to men. However, as centuries passed, their rights began to slowl...
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In life, we endure many situations in which we have to make difficult decisions. For the most part, these decisions are based on the people around us, or society. Basically, society controls us totall...
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According to Viktors Ivbulis (1995: 23 - 29) in Modernist fiction a special attention is paid to an individual who degrades because of the pressure from the society and is therefore shown as a small p...
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Woolf, Virginia
Virginia Stephen Woolf
Virginia Woolf
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf
