Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941
Biographical note
Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was a English author and feminist. Born Adeline Virginia Stephens in London she was brought up and educated at home. In 1895 following the death of her mother she had the first of numerous nervous breakdowns. Following the death of her father (Sir Leslie Stephen, a literary critic) in 1904, she moved with her sister and two brothers to a house in Bloomsbury. She began writing professionally in 1905, initially for the Times Literary Supplement. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a civil servant and political theorist. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915. Between the wars, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury group. In March 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse, near her Rodmell residence. She had published ten (?) novels and over 500 essays.
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Works
- The Voyage Out [1915] [ read | download ]
- Night and Day [1919] [ read | download ]
- Jacob's Room [1920] [ read | download ]
- Monday or Tuesday [1921] [ read | download ]
- Mrs Dalloway [1925] [ read | download ]
- The Common Reader, First Series [1925] [ read | download ]
- To the Lighthouse [1927] [ read | download ]
- Orlando [1928] [ read | download ]
- A Room of One's Own [1929] [ read | download ]
- The Waves [1931] [ read | download ]
- Flush: A Biography [1933] [ read | download ]
- The Common Reader, Second Series [1925] [ read | download ]
- The Years [1937] [ read | download ]
- Three Guineas [1938] [ read | download ]
- Between the Acts [1941] [ read | download ]
- The Death of the Moth and Other Essays [1942] [ read | download ]
Contents: Editorial Note — The Death of the Moth — Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car — Three Pictures — Old Mrs. Grey — Street Haunting: A London Adventure — Jones and Wilkinson — "Twelfth night" at the Old Vic — Madame de Sévigné — The Humane Art — Two Antiquaries: Walpole and Cole — The Rev William Cole — The Historian and "The Gibbon" — Reflections at Sheffield Place — The Man at the Gate — Sara Coleridge — "Not one of us" — Henry James: 1. Within the Rim — Henry James: 2. The old order — Henry James: 3. The letters of Henry James — George Moore — The novels of E. M. Forster — Middlebrow — The Art of Biography — Craftsmanship — A letter to a young poet — Why? — Professions for women — Thoughts on peace in an air raid - A Haunted House and Other Short Stories [1944] [ read | download ]
Contents: Foreword by Leonard Woolf — A Haunted House — Monday or Tuesday — An Unwritten Novel — The String Quartet — Kew Gardens — The Mark on the Wall — The New Dress — The Shooting Party — Lappin and Lapinova — Solid Objects — The Lady in the Looking–Glass — A Reflection — The Duchess and the Jeweller — Moments of Being — The Man Who Loved His Kind — The Searchlight — The Legacy — Together and Apart — A Summing Up
