"Craftsmanship" is a short essay by English author Virginia Woolf. It was originally delivered as a talk as part of the BBC's Words Fail Me series on April 29, 1937. As such, it is the only surviving recording of Woolf's voice. The essay was later published in the collection The Death of the Moth and Other Essays in 1942, one year after Woolf's death in 1941. "Craftsmanship" discusses the nature of words and the English language. It explores themes like the history of words, the responsibility of writers, and the wonder of the human mind.
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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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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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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