Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf often wrote as many as six letters a day. This collection is illustrated with contemporary photographs and paintings - many of them by members of the Bloomsbury Group, such as Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant - and aims to evoke the literary and artistic life of the day. The …

Mrs Dalloway is een roman van Virginia Woolf die verhaalt over het alledaagse leven van Clarissa Dalloway in het Engeland van na de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Dit werd een van Woolfs bekendste boeken. Het boek is gebaseerd op twee korte verhalen, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" en het onafgewerkte "The Prime Minister". Het …

On Being Ill is an essay by Virginia Woolf that appeared in T. S. Eliot's The Criterion in January, 1926; The essay was later reprinted, with revisions, in Forum in April 1926, under the title Illness: An Unexploited Mine. The essay seeks to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, …

A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death although in the foreword he states that they had discussed its production together. The first six stories appeared in her only previous collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921 : "A …

To the Lighthouse is een roman van Virginia Woolf uit 1927. Beschreven wordt de familie Ramsay en meer in het bijzonder hun bezoekjes aan het Schotse eiland Skye tussen 1910 en 1920.

MOMENTS OF BEING is a collection containing Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing. The author was well born, and in "Reminiscenses," the first of five pieces, she focuses on the death of her mother, "the greatest disaster that could happen," and its effect on her father, the demanding Victorian patriarch. "A …