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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist. Born in London, she was raised in a family of eight children by Julia Prinsep Jackson, a model and philanthropist, and Leslie St...voir plusVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist. Born in London, she was raised in a family of eight children by Julia Prinsep Jackson, a model and philanthropist, and Leslie Stephen, a writer and critic. Homeschooled alongside her sisters, including famed painter Vanessa Bell, Woolf was introduced to classic literature at an early age. Following the death of her mother in 1895, Woolf suffered her first mental breakdown. Two years later, she enrolled at King’s College London, where she studied history and classics and encountered leaders of the burgeoning women’s rights movement. Another mental breakdown accompanied her father’s death in 1904, after which she moved with her Cambridge-educated brothers to Bloomsbury, a bohemian district on London’s West End. There, she became a member of the influential Bloomsbury Group, a gathering of leading artists and intellectuals including Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell, E.M. Forster, and Leonard Woolf, whom she would marry in 1912. Together they founded the Hogarth Press, which would publish most of Woolf’s work. Recognized as a central figure of literary modernism, Woolf was a gifted practitioner of experimental fiction, employing the stream of consciousness technique and mastering the use of free indirect discourse, a form of third person narration which allows the reader to enter the minds of her characters. Woolf, who produced such masterpieces as Mrs. Dalloway (1925),
To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), and A Room of One’s Own (1929), continued to suffer from depression throughout her life. Following the German Blitz on her native London, Woolf, a lifelong pacifist, died by suicide in 1941. Her career cut cruelly short, she left a legacy and a body of work unmatched by any English novelist of her day.voir moins
Livres par Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway Orlando, A Biography: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition Évaluation : 0 sur 5 étoiles0 évaluationA Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition Évaluation : 0 sur 5 étoiles0 évaluationOrlando: A Biography Évaluation : 3 sur 5 étoiles3/5A Writer's Diary Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles4/5The Common Reader Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles4/5A Room Of One's Own (annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition Évaluation : 0 sur 5 étoiles0 évaluationMrs Dalloway Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles4/5Flush Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles4/5Mrs. Dalloway Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles4/5To The Lighthouse: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition Évaluation : 0 sur 5 étoiles0 évaluation
Livres audio par Virginia Woolf
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles4/5Mrs Dalloway Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles4/5The Waves Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles4/5Mrs Dalloway Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles4/5Orlando Évaluation : 5 sur 5 étoiles5/5To the Lighthouse Évaluation : 5 sur 5 étoiles5/5A Writer's Diary Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles4/5Between the Acts Évaluation : 0 sur 5 étoiles0 évaluationThe Voyage Out Évaluation : 0 sur 5 étoiles0 évaluationThe Waves Évaluation : 2 sur 5 étoiles2/5Orlando Évaluation : 4 sur 5 étoiles4/5
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A Rare Recording of Virginia Woolf On Words Évaluation : 0 sur 5 étoiles0 évaluation