Jacob's Room Night and Day The Voyage Out
Virginia Plain LiveVirginia Woolf constantly defies my expectations, always for the better.Nothing I had read prepared me for the light and comic touch of this short work (which is not to deny the lasting significance of its subject matter).The essay grew out of a talk she gave to the female stud...
Virginia WoolfOn January 1, 1953, Leonard Woolf completed his Preface to A Writer's Diary, a compilation of extracts from the 26 volumes of diaries that Virginia Woolf wrote from 1915 until 1941, with the last entry written just four days before her death. This book was published before the five-...
…it matters not just because women win. It matters because it means we have a seat at the table. And everybody in this room knows the basic rule, if you don’t have a seat at the table, you are probably on the menu.—Senator Elizabeth WarrenThis is my seventh Woolf. I own ten more. It is not often ...
chastity is nothing but ignorance—a most discreditable state of mind. We should admit only the unchaste to our society. “the truth has nothing to do with literature,” “that fiction is the mirror of life.IT FELT LIKE 300 PAGES NOT 551. A Haunted House★2. A Society★★★★★3. Monday or Tuesday★4. An Un...
Apparently it was not anything unusual that had happened; it was that they had become engaged to marry each other. The world, which consisted for the most part of the hotel and the villa, expressed itself glad on the whole that two people should marry, and allowed them to see that they were not e...
It was completely still. It was very silent. There was the inkpot: there was the pen; there was the manuscript of her poem, broken off in the middle of a tribute to eternity. She had been about to say, when Basket and Bartholomew interrupted with the tea things, nothing changes. And then, in the ...
Her parents, Leslie and Julia Stephen, both previously widowed, began their marriage in 1878 with four young children: Laura (1870–1945), the daughter of Leslie Stephen and his first wife, Harriet Thackeray (1840–1875); and George (1868–1934), Gerald (1870–1937), and Stella Duckworth (1869–1897),...
Dalloway is based on the original British edition published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, on 14 May 1925; the novel was reissued in September 1925 with a few textual changes. The first American edition was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, on 14 M...