VIRGINIA WOOLF

      BIOGRAPHY

     As Wikipedia says, Adeline Virginia Woolf was born the 25th January 1882 and died the 28th March 1941. She was one of the most important Modernist writers and an icon in the literature of the twentieth century. His remarkable role in the Bloomsbury group while the First World War was already started entailed her best contributions to the intellectual circles with works as Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, Orlando, or A Room of One's Own. She embodied a very well-known representative of feminism by means of some of her works. "Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, thought to have been the result of what is now termed bipolar disorder, andcommitted suicide by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59"

        According to Chronological List of Works By Virginia Woolf, these are the chronologies of some of her greatest works. 

        Mrs. Dalloway (14 May 1925) was published in England at the same time than in the United States. This novel narrates the life of Clarissa Dalloway meanwhile the life of another character, Septimus Smith, is also depicted in the novel. Their lives seem to be connected in some way. To The Lighthouse (5 May 1927) reports some of Woolf’s autobiographical events of her life portrayed by the story of a family placed in their house in Cornwall with role of time as one of the most important ones. Orlando (2 Oct 1928), one of her best-selling novels, narrates the life of a nobleman in England who lives in the Renaissance while he becomes a woman and lives 400 years. A Room of One’s Own (24 Oct 1929) is quintessentially considered Woolf's feminist work. It was created from lectures Virginia gave in Cambridge University and was composed by six chapters. The Waves (October 1931) can be considered as one of the best ones although it was also the most experimental one.  

        Mantex offers a different perspective of the former works described below just like different film versions already available. 

            In Mrs .Dalloway, a woman from the high class of London who spends a day preparing a great party at her house. By stream of consciousness, readers can know what the different characters think on a same theme while they see how Clarissa perceives the passage of time while she explores her past life. Death also plays an important role in the novel; First World War is still present in most of the character’s lives. "This novel is now seen as a central text of English literary modernism" 

 

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         In words of Naomi Black in her work Virginia Woolf as a feminist and according to its description in Cornell UniversityPress, Woolf's involvement in the social changes of the time (working conditions, women increasing engagement…) was highly depicted in some of her works. Three Guineas for example truthfully describes the feminist movement carried out by Virginia Woolf. "Infact, this book is the best, clearest presentation of Woolf's feminism". The current feminist movements at the time were an inspiration for her work but also for her own contribution to literary production from 1920 to 1940.

      According to Wikipedia these are the most important non-fiction books and the short story collections by Virginia Woolf:

Non-fiction books 

* Modern Fiction (1919) 

* The Common Reader (1925)

* A Room of One's Own (1929)

* On Being Ill (1930) 

* The London Scene (1931) 

* The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)

* Three Guineas (1938) 

* The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942) 

* The Moment and Other Essays (1947) 

* The Captain's Death Bed And Other Essays (1950)

* Granite and Rainbow (1958)

* Books and Portraits (1978) 

* Women And Writing (1979) 

* Collected Essays (four volumes)  

Short story collections

* Kew Gardens (1919) 

* Monday or Tuesday (1921)

* A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944) 

* Mrs Dalloway's Party (1973) 

* The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985) 

* Carlyle's House and Other Sketches (2003)

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"Virginia Woolf". Wikipedia.com. Web 10 March 2015. 

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“Virginia Woolf Greatest Works”. Mantex; Virginia Woolf greatest works. Web. 10 March 2015.

“Works”. Wikipedia.com. Web. 10 March 2015.

"Virginia Woolf as a feminist". Cornwell University Press. Web. 17 April 2015.

 Black, Naomi. 2004. Virginia Woolf as a feminist. Cornwell University Press. 24 April 2015.Print.