Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Virginia Woolf
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Standard Name: Woolf, Virginia
Birth Name: Adeline Virginia Stephen
Nickname: Ginia
Married Name: Adeline Virginia Woolf
Thousands of readers over three or four generations have known that Virginia Woolf was—by a beadle—denied access to the library of a great university. They may have known, too, that she was a leading intellect of the twentieth century. If they are feminist readers they will know that she thought . . . back through her mothers and also sideways through her sisters and that she contributed more than any other in the twentieth century to the recovery of women's writing.
Marcus, Jane. “Introduction”. New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf, edited by Jane Marcus, Macmillan, p. i - xx.
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Educated in her father's library and in a far more than usually demanding school of life, she radically altered the course not only of the English tradition but also of the several traditions of literature in English.
Froula, Christine. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde. Columbia University Press.
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She wrote prodigiously—nine published novels, as well as stories, essays (including two crucial books on feminism, its relation to education and to war), diaries, letters, biographies (both serious and burlesque), and criticism. As a literary journalist in a wide range of forums, she addressed the major social issues of her time in more than a million words.
Woolf, Virginia. “Introduction; Editorial Note”. The Essays of Virginia Woolf, edited by Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, pp. vols. 1 - 4: various pages.
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She left a richly documented life in words, inventing a modern fiction, theorising modernity, writing the woman into the picture. She built this outstandingly influential work, which has had its impact on both writing and life, on her personal experience, and her fictions emerge to a striking degree from her life, her gender, and her moment in history. In a sketch of her career written to Ethel Smyth
she said that a short story called An Unwritten Novelwas the great discovery . . . . That—again in one second—showed me how I could embody all my deposit of experience in a shape that fitted it.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
Theatre historian Julie Holledge
has suggested that Craig was the model for Virginia Woolf
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Vernon Lee
Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
's Hogarth Press
published VL
's The Poet's Eye, Notes on Some Differences Between Verse and Prose.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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Muriel Jaeger
MJ
's first novel, The Man with Six Senses, was published by Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
at the Hogarth Press
. It deals with human evolution towards abilities currently seen as paranormal.
Virginia Woolf's...
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Christina Stead
In 1972 CS
spent three painful months over a commission to review Quentin Bell
's life of Virginia Woolf
. She found many aspects and supposed aspects of Woolf repugnant: her alleged lack of appreciation...
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Violet Trefusis
VT
published Broderie Anglaise, a roman à clef written in French and based partly on reconsideration of the web of relationships linking herself, Vita Sackville-West
, and Virginia Woolf
.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Broderie Anglaise, translated by. Barbara Bray and Barbara Bray, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
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Eavan Boland
EB
alluded in the title of her poetry volume A Woman Without a Country to Virginia Woolf
's outsider pronouncement: as a woman, I have no country.
PB
published a collection of short stories, Strange Fruit, one of which concerns an imaginary meeting between herself and Virginia Woolf
.
Sackville-West, Vita. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Editors DeSalvo, Louise and Mitchell A. Leaska, Hutchinson.
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Susan Tweedsmuir
The next biography by Susan Buchan (later ST
), Funeral March of a Marionette: Charlotte of Albany, was published by Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
at the Hogarth Press
.
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Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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Jackie Kay
JK
wrote one of the two introductions for the Vintage
classics edition of Virginia Woolf
's Between the Acts; a second introduction was written by academic Lisa Jardine
.
One attempted and abandoned novel between Blindness and Living contained a garden scene which, according the literary critic John Russell, seems to have come straight out of Mrs. Woolf
's Kew Gardens.
Russell, John David. Henry Green: Nine Novels and an Unpacked Bag. Rutgers University Press.
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Gertrude Stein
Edith Sitwell
had hosted a tea for GS
when she came to lecture at Cambridge
and Oxford
earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press.
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They had written on 11 June...
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Helen Dunmore
HD
's many other writings include reviews (of both poetry and fiction), introductions (to the poems of Emily Brontë
, the stories of D. H. Lawrence
and F. Scott Fitzgerald
, and a study of...
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Susan Hill
Jacob's Room is Full of Books, which followed on 5 October 2017,