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Virginia Woolf Bibliography
This is a bibliography of works by the English novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf (1882–1941). Novels *''The Voyage Out'' (1915) *''Night and Day (Woolf novel), Night and Day'' (1919) *''Jacob's Room'' (1922) *''Mrs Dalloway'' (1925) *''To the Lighthouse'' (1927) *''Orlando: A Biography'' (1928) *''The Waves'' (1931) *''The Years (Woolf novel), The Years'' (1937) *''Between the Acts'' (1941) Short fiction Short stories * A Dialogue upon Mount Pentelicus * A Haunted House * A Simple Melody * A Society * A Summing Up * A Woman's College from Outside * Ancestors * Blue & Green * Gypsy, the Mongrel * Happiness * In the Orchard * Kew Gardens * Lappin and Lappinova * Memoirs of a Novelist * Miss Pryme * Moments of Being: ‘Slater's Pins Have No Points’ * Monday or Tuesday * Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street * Nurse Lugton's Curtain * Ode Written Partly in Prose of Seeing the Name of Cutbush Above a Butcher’s Shop in Pentonville * Phyllis and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device. Virginia Woolf was born in South Kensington, London, into an affluent and intellectual family as the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen. She grew up in a blended household of eight children, including her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell. Educated at home in English classics and Victorian literature, Woolf later attended King’s College London, where she studied classics and history and encountered early advocates for women’s rights and education. After the death of her father in 1904, Woolf and her family moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury district, where she became a founding member of the influential Bloomsbury Group. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912, and together they established the Hogarth Press in 1917 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A True Story
''A True Story'' (, ''Alēthē diēgēmata''; or ), also translated as ''True History'', is a long novella or short novel written in the second century AD by the Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. The novel is a satire of outlandish tales that had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those that presented fantastic or mythical events as if they were true. It is Lucian's best-known work. It is the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare. It has been described as "the first known text that could be called science fiction". However, the work does not fit into typical literary genres: its multilayered plot and its characters have been interpreted as belonging to science fiction, fantasy, satire or parody, and have been the subjects of scholarly debate. Plot The novel begins with an explanation that the story is not at all "true", and that everything in it is a complete and utter lie. The narrative begi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Gissing
The Gissing family of Great Britain included several noted writers, Olympic competitors, and teachers. George Gissing George Robert Gissing (1857–1903) was an English novelist, some of whose work has appeared in many editions, including ''The Nether World'' (1889), ''New Grub Street'' (1891) and ''The Odd Women'' (1893). Algernon Gissing Algernon Fred Gissing (1860–1937) was an English novelist and the younger brother of George Robert Gissing. Alfred Charles Gissing Alfred Charles Gissing (20 January 1896 (Epsom, Surrey) – 27 November 1975 (Valais, Switzerland), was an English writer and headmaster, the youngest son of George. After the early death of their father on 28 December 1903, Walter Leonard (born at Exeter on 10 December 1891) and Alfred Charles, benefited from a small government pension. The following report was published in The Times newspaper for 24 June 1904: At the time, Walter was a boarder at school in Norfolk, and Alfred had moved in 1902 to live wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gissing
George Robert Gissing ( ; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. In the 1890s he was considered one of the three greatest novelists in England, and by the 1940s he had been recognised as a literary genius. Gissing's best-known works have reappeared in modern editions. They include ''The Nether World'' (1889), ''New Grub Street'' (1891) and ''The Odd Women'' (1893). He retains a small but devoted group of followers. Biography Early life Gissing was born on 22 November 1857 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, the eldest of five children of Thomas Waller Gissing, who ran a chemist's shop, and Margaret (née Bedford). His siblings were: William, who died aged twenty; Algernon Gissing, Algernon, who became a writer; Margaret; and Ellen.Pierre Coustillas,Gissing, George Robert (1857–1903) (), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', online), Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 17 June 2012. His childhood home i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moments Of Being
''Moments of Being'' is a collection of posthumously-published autobiographical essays by Virginia Woolf. The collection was first found in the papers of her husband, used by Quentin Bell in his biography of Virginia Woolf, published in 1972. In 1976, the essays were edited for publication by Jeanne Schulkind. The second edition was published in 1985. The original texts are now housed at Sussex University and in the British Library in London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester .... Title The title for the collection was chosen by its original editor, Jeanne Schulkind, based on a passage from "A Sketch of the Past". As described by Woolf, 'moments of being' are moments in which an individual experiences a sense of reality, in contrast to the states of 'non-being' t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include '' Crime and Punishment'' (1866), ''The Idiot'' (1869), ''Demons'' (1872), '' The Adolescent'' (1875) and '' The Brothers Karamazov'' (1880). His '' Notes from Underground'', a novella published in 1864, is considered one of the first works of existentialist literature. Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died of tuberculosis on 27 February 1837, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an Americans, American writer, Tony Awards, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other writers. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian era, Edwardian settings. Early life Gorey was born in Chicago. His parents, Helen Dunham (née Garvey) and Edward Leo Gorey, divorced in 1936 when he was 11. His father remarried in 1952 when he was 27. His stepmother was Corinna Mura (1910–1965), a cabaret singer who had a small role in ''Casablanca (film), Casablanca'' as the woman playing the guitar while singing "La Marseillaise" at Rick's Café Américain. His father was briefly a journalist. Gorey's maternal great-grandmother, Helen St. John Garvey, was a nineteenth-century greeting card illustrator, from whom he claimed to have in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Comedy
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granite And Rainbow
''Granite and Rainbow'' is a posthumous collection of twenty-five essays on the art of fiction and the art of biography by Virginia Woolf. It was first published by Harcourt Brace in 1958. It includes an editorial note by Leonard Woolf. It is not to be confused with ''Granite and Rainbow: The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf'' by Mitchell Leaska. References {{reflist, colwidth=30em External links Granite and Rainbowat Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including web ... Works by Virginia Woolf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The London Scene (Virginia Woolf)
''The London Scene'' is the name given to a series of six essays that Virginia Woolf wrote for ''Good Housekeeping'' magazine in 1931 and 1932. The title was not chosen by Woolf but comes from the 1975 republication of five of the essays. Originally the essays were referred to as 'Six Articles on London Life'. Essays The Docks of London This was the first of the essays published in the series that Woolf wrote for ''Good Housekeeping'' and was published in the December 1931 issue of the magazine (volume 20, issue 4). In the essay, Woolf describes visiting the Port of London, at the time the World's largest port. The essay imagines a trip along the River Thames and describes the sites of industry and trade that would be seen along the way, as well as the environmental consequences. The essay was based on Woolf's trip to the port earlier in 1931, where she accompanied the Persian ambassador. The Oxford Street Tide This second essay was published in the January 1932 issue of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Guineas
''Three Guineas'' is a book-length essay by Virginia Woolf, published in June 1938. Background Although ''Three Guineas'' is a work of non-fiction, it was initially conceived as a "novel–essay" which would tie up the loose ends left in her earlier work, ''A Room of One's Own''. The book was to alternate between fictive narrative chapters and non-fiction essay chapters, demonstrating Woolf's views on war and women in both types of writing at once. This unfinished manuscript was published in 1977 as ''The Pargiters''. When Woolf realised the idea of a "novel–essay" wasn't working, she separated the two parts. The non-fiction portion became ''Three Guineas''. The fiction portion became Woolf's most popular novel during her lifetime, '' The Years'', which charts social change from 1880 to the time of publication through the lives of the Pargiter family. It was so popular, in fact, that pocket-sized editions of the novel were published for soldiers as leisure reading during Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Being Ill
''On Being Ill'' is an essay by Virginia Woolf, which seeks to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. Woolf writes about the isolation, loneliness, and vulnerability that disease may bring and how it can make even the maturest of adults feel like children again. Composition and publication The essay was written in 1925, when she was 42 years old, while she was in bed shortly after experiencing a nervous breakdown. It first appeared in T. S. Eliot's ''The Criterion'' in January, 1926, and was later reprinted, with revisions, in ''Forum'' in April 1926, under the title ''Illness: An Unexploited Mine''. It was then published as a standalone volume by Woolf's Hogarth Press in 1930, in a small edition of 250 copies typeset by Woolf herself. It was later included in two collections of her essays, ''The Moment and Other Essays'' (1947) and ''Collected Essays'' (1967). By 2001, however, it had been out of print for 70 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
