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Virginia Woolf selected essays
non-fiction meditations from a great novelist Virginia Woolf selected essays is a completely self-contained, and can be read for the pleasure which she thought was the purpose of the essay form. But...
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The Hours
the film of a novel about a book When it first appeared, Stephen Daldry’s film of Michael Cunningham’s best-selling novel was subject to a number of niggling criticisms which made me apprehensive when...
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
love, literature, and friendship Bloomsbury-style The title of this book is letters to Virginia Woolf – but this is so misleading, that I have changed it for the title of this review. This is a fully...
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The Bedside Companion to Virginia Woolf
This is a really curious book, both in appearance and content. The text is presented in double columns like a Victorian newspaper, and its subject is just about everything you could think of regarding...
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Virginia Woolf a critical memoir
critical study – plus personal memoir Virginia Woolf A Critical Memoir was the first extended study of Virginia Woolf’s work to be written in English. It appeared in 1936, whilst Woolf was still alive,...
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Virginia Woolf illustrated biography
an introduction to her life and work This is a best-selling book from Thames and Hudson. It’s slim, cheap, and you might almost say a little old fashioned – yet it goes on being popular year after...
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Virginia Woolf authors in context
literature, politics, philosophy, art, feminism, criticism The Authors in Context series examines the work of major writers in relation to their own times and the present day. This volume sets Virginia...
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The Hogarth Press
The Hogarth Press 1917—1941 The Hogarth Press was established by Leonard Woolf in 1917 as a therapeutic hobby for his wife Virginia Woolf who was recovering from one of her frequent bouts of...
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Roger Fry a biography
portrait of Bloomsbury’s art theorist by premier writer This is one of the last books Virginia Woolf wrote, and it is a tribute from one artist to another, an account of Fry’s aesthetics, and one of...
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Hyde Park Gate News
Bloomsbury juvenillia and journalism This gem of Bloomsbury juvenilia was hidden for years in the British Library’s Department of Manuscripts. It comes to us now in a beautiful paperback edition with...
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Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches
Virginia Woolf’s previously unpublished early works This is an unusually exciting event for Woolf fans – the first publication of an undiscovered notebook which had been lost for seventy years....
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The Platform of Time
Virginia Woolf’s Memoirs of Family and Friends This is a new collection of largely unfamiliar memoirs, edited by the Bloomsbury scholar S.R.Rosenbaum (who also edited The Bloomsbury Group). It includes...
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Virginia Woolf an MFS reader
academic essays on Woolf and her major novels For those who may not know, MFS is not some sort of DIY building material, but Modern Fiction Studies, a prestigious academic journal, and Virginia Woolf...
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Virginia Woolf life and works
novelist, essayist, diarist, biographer 1882. Virginia Woolf born (25 Jan) Adeline Virginia Stephen, third child of Leslie Stephen (Victorian man of letters – first editor of the Dictionary of National...
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Virginia Woolf selected criticism
literary criticism and commentary T.E. Apter, Virginia Woolf: A Study of her Novels, New York: New York University Press, 1979. Anne Oliver Bell and Andrew McNeillie, The Diary of Virginia Woolf,...
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Virginia Woolf web links
Virginia Woolf – web links Virginia Woolf at Mantex Biographical notes, study guides to the major works, book reviews, studies of the short stories, bibliographies, web links, study resources. Blogging...
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Virginia Woolf greatest works
fictional works – plus some film versions Jacob’s Room (1922) was Woolf’s first and most dramatic break with traditional narrative fiction. It was also the first of her novels she published herself, as...
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Virginia Woolf non-fiction
essays, letters, diaries, lectures, biography The Essays are a wonderful introduction to the world of belles lettres. Virginia Woolf’s non-fiction writing and literary career began in her father’s...
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Virginia Woolf a writer’s life
a biography as seen through her major works What does this biography have that the many others don’t? Well, Lyndall Gordon claims that Virginia Woolf a writer’s life was written to counteract the...
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Mrs Dalloway
tutorial, characters, video, criticism, study resources Mrs Dalloway (1925) is probably the most accessible of Virginia Woolf’s great modernist novels. A day in the life of a London society hostess is...
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To the Lighthouse
tutorial, characters, criticism, resource materials To the Lighthouse (1927) is the second of the twin jewels in the crown of Virginia Woolf’s late experimental phase. It is concerned with the passage...
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Orlando
tutorial, characters, video, resources, further reading Orlando (1927) is one of Virginia Woolf’s lesser-known novels, although it’s critical reputation has risen in recent years. It’s a delightful...
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Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language
Woolf as essayist, feminist, and anti-militarist The Virgina Woolf industry continues at full capacity on both sides of the Atlantic, and this slim monograph Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language...
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Virginia Woolf and the Arts
essays in literary, media, and cultural studies As editor Maggie Humm points out in her introduction to this huge collection of scholarly studies on Virginia Woolf and the Arts, Woolf spent her entire...
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Virginia Woolf on video
biographical and documentary archive films Virginia Woolf on Video is something of a tease title, I admit. But this page pulls together film archives and footage of documentaries on Virginia Woolf plus...
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Memoirs of a Novelist
Virginia Woolf’s earliest stories and experiments Memoirs of a Novelist is a charming collection of short stories written in the earliest phase of Virginia Woolf’s career as a writer of modernist...
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Flush a biography
the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s pet Spaniel Flush a biography (1933) is a work that combines fictional biography with Virginia Woolf’s love of ‘letters’ and her interst in writers’ lives. And...
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Virginia Woolf on Fiction
essays on novelists, fiction, and the novel Virginia Woolf on Fiction is a collection of essays on the subject of imaginative narratives. Virginia Woolf never went to university – in fact she hardly...
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Virginia Woolf an introduction
a sketch of her life – an appreciation of the novels Virginia Woolf An Introduction is yet another study that combines a biography with comments on her major writing. There have been several...
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Virginia Woolf biography
a short critical study of her life and works The life of Virginia Woolf’s is now quite well known in its main details. Quentin Bell (her nephew) produced the definitive factual biography, and there...
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Jacob’s Room
tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links Jacob’s Room (1922) was the first of Virginia Woolf’s novels that she published herself, as co-founder of the Hogarth Press. She knew that the form...
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On Being Ill
poetic meditations on illness and consciousness On Being Ill (recently re-issued) is a timely reminder that not only was Virginia Woolf a great novelist and writer of short stories, she was also an...
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Between the Acts
tutorial, commentary, study resources, plot, and web links Between the Acts was started in April 1938 and the first draft completed in November 1940 just months before Virginia Woolf died in 1941. Her...
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The Years
tutorial, commentary, study resources, plot, and web links The Years (1937) was the largest of Virginia Woolf’s novels. Its focus is the passage of time as it traces the Pargiter family history from...
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Virginia Woolf short stories
tutorials, synopses, commentaries, and study resources This is an ongoing collection of tutorials and study guides featuring the short stories of Virginia Woolf. The earliest story dates from 1906 and...
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Virginia Woolf’s Women
biographical studies of major figures in her life Virginia Woolf’s Women is a study of the principal females in Virginia Woolf’s life and the influences they may have had in shaping her views of the...
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The Complete Short Stories of Virginia Woolf
The Complete Short Stories of Virginia Woolf is a series of tutorials and guidance notes on all Woolf’s shorter fiction. She wrote many of these stories as experimental sketches or exercises in which...
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Virginia Woolf and Cubism
the development of literary and visual modernism Virginia Woolf and Cubism might seem at first a rather odd conjunction, but in fact her literary experimentation was taking place at exactly the same...
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Virginia Woolf criticism
annotated bibliography of criticism and comment Virginia Woolf criticism is a bibliography of critical comment on Virginia Woolf and her works, with details of each publication and a brief description...
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The Voyage Out
tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links The Voyage Out was Virginia Woolf’s first full length novel. It was written and re-written many times between (probably) 1907 and its eventual...
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Night and Day
tutorial, commentary, study resources, plot. web links Night and Day was Virginia Woolf’s second full-length novel. It was first published by Duckworth and Company in October 1919. (This was the...
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The Common Reader first series
essays on literature, authors, and cultural history The Common Reader first series is a famous collection of essays by Virginia Woolf that explore the rich history of literature and English writing...
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The Common Reader second series
essays and reviews on literary and cultural history The Common Reader second series (1935) is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, the second to be published in her own lifetime. It followed on...
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The Moment
essays on literature, reading, and cultural history The Moment (1947) is the second collection of essays and reviews by Virginia Woolf that were gathered and edited by her husband Leonard after her...
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The Death of the Moth
essays on literature, reading, and cultural history The Death of the Moth (1942) is the third volume of Virginia Woolf’s essays to be published after the success of her earlier collections The Common...
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Granite and Rainbow
essays on literature, biography, and cultural history Granite and Rainbow (1958) is the third and final volume of Virginia Woolf’s essays to be collected, edited, and published by her husband Leonard...
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The Captain’s Death Bed
essays on literature, biography, and cultural history The Captain’s Death Bed (1950) is the third volume of collected reviews and essays to be published by Leonard Woolf at the Hogarth Press after the...
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