This is a bibliography of works by the English novelist and essayist

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. Vir ...

(1882–1941).

Novels

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The Voyage Out ''The Voyage Out'' is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth. Development and first draft Woolf began work on ''The Voyage Out'' by 1910 (perhaps as early as 1907) and had finished an early draft by 1912. The novel ...

'' (1915) *'' Night and Day'' (1919) *''

Jacob's Room ''Jacob's Room'' is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922. The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressi ...

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Mrs Dalloway ''Mrs Dalloway'' is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. The working title of ''Mrs Dalloway'' was ''The Hours ...

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To the Lighthouse ''To the Lighthouse'' is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel P ...

'' (1927) *'' Orlando: A Biography'' (1928) *''

The Waves ''The Waves'' is a 1931 novel by English novelist Virginia Woolf. It is critically regarded as her most experimental work, consisting of ambiguous and cryptic soliloquies spoken mainly by six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny an ...

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The Years ''The Years'' is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s. Although spanning fifty years, the novel is not epic i ...

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Between the Acts ''Between the Acts'' is the final novel by Virginia Woolf. It was published shortly after her death in 1941. Although the manuscript had been completed, Woolf had yet to make final revisions. The book describes the mounting, performance, and a ...

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Short fiction

Short stories

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A Haunted House ''A Haunted House'' is a 2013 American satirical horror comedy film directed by Michael Tiddes and written and produced by Marlon Wayans. The film stars Wayans alongside Essence Atkins, Cedric the Entertainer, Nick Swardson, David Koechner an ...

* 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 Kew Gardens is a botanical garden, botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botany, botanical and mycology, mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1759, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its li ...

* Lappin and Lappinova * Memoirs of a Novelist * Miss Pryme * Moments of Being: ‘Slater's Pins Have No Points’ *

Monday or Tuesday ''Monday or Tuesday'' is a 1921 short story collection by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press. 1000 copies were printed with four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Leonard Woolf called it one of the worst printed books ever publish ...

* 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 Rosamond * Portraits * Scenes from the Life of a British Naval Officer * Solid Objects * Sympathy *

The Duchess and the Jeweller "The Duchess and the Jeweller" (1938) is a short story by Virginia Woolf. Woolf, being an advocate of addressing the "stream of consciousness," shows the thoughts and actions of a greedy jeweller; Woolf makes a thematic point that corrupt people ...

* The Evening Party * The Fascination of the Pool * The Introduction * The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn * The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection * The Legacy *

The Mark on the Wall "The Mark on the Wall" is the first published short story by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1917 as part of the first collection of short stories written by Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard Woolf, called ''Two Stories''. It was later p ...

* The Mysterious Case of Miss V. * The New Dress * The Searchlight * The Shooting Party * The String Quartet * The Symbol * The Watering Place * The Widow and the Parrot: A True Story * Three Pictures * Together and Apart * Uncle Vanya

Short fiction collections

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A Haunted House and Other Short Stories ''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 sto ...

'' (1944) *''Mrs. Dalloway's Party'' (1973) *''The Complete Shorter Fiction'' (1985)

Cross-genre

*'' Flush: A Biography'' (1933)—Fictional "stream of consciousness" tale by Flush, a dog, but non-fiction in the sense of telling the story of the owner of the dog,

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work receiv ...

Non-fiction

Biography

* '' Roger Fry: A Biography'' (1940)

Book length essays

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A Room of One's Own ''A Room of One's Own'' is an extended essay, divided into six chapters, by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College, Cambridge, Newnham College and Girton Co ...

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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 br ...

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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 e ...

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Essays

* A Room of One's Own * Abbeys and Cathedrals * Addison * All About Books * American Fiction * An Essay in Criticism * A Friend of Johnson * A Letter to a Young Poet * A Talk About Memoirs * A Terribly Sensitive Mind * Aurora Leigh * The Art Of Fiction * The Art of Biography * The Artist and Politics * The Captain's Death Bed * The Cinema * The Common Reader * Congreve’s Comedies * Crabbe * Craftsmanship * David Copperfield * Defoe * De Quincey's Autobiography * The Cosmos * The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia * The Docks of London * Donne After Three Centuries * Dorothy Osborne's Letters * Dr. Burney's Evening Party * The Duchess of Newcastle * Edmund Gosse * Ellen Terry * Eliza and Sterne * Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car * The Elizabethan Lumber Room * The Enchanted Organ: Anne Thackeray * Fanny Burney’s Half-Sister * The Faery Queen * Fishing * Flying Over London * Four Figures I. Cowper and Lady Austen, Beau Brummell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth * Four Figures II. Beau Brummell * Four Figures III. Mary Wollstonecraft * Four Figures IV. Dorothy Wordsworth * The Dream * The Duchess of Newcastle * Gas * George Eliot * George Gissing * George Moore * Geraldine and Jane * Genius: R. B. Haydon * Gothic Romance * Green Men’s Houses * Half of Thomas Hardy * Harriette Wilson * Henry James * Henry James I. Within the Rim * Henry James II. The Old Order * Henry James III. The Letters of Henry James * Henry James’s Ghost Stories * The Historian and The Gibbon * Horace Walpole * Hours in a Library * How It Strikes a Contemporary * How Should One Read a Book? * I Am Christina Rossetti * Impassioned Prose * Jack Mytton * Jane Austen * Jayne Eyre and Wuthering Heights * Jones and Wilkinson * Joseph Conrad * The Leaning Tower * Leslie Stephen * Lewis Carroll * Life and the Novelist * Life Itself * Lives of the Obscure - Laetitia Pilkington * Lives of the Obscure - Taylors and Edgeworths * Lockhart's Criticism * Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son * Madame de Sévigné * The Man at the Gate * Memories of a Working Women's Guild * Middlebrow * Modern Fiction (Essay) * Modern Letters * Money and Love * Montaigne * Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1924) * Mr. Conrad: A Conversation * Mrs. Thrale * The Moment: Summer’s Night * The Modern Essay * The Narrow Bridge of Art * The New Biography * The Niece of an Earl * Not One of Us * Notes on an Elizabethan Play * Notes on D. H. Lawrence * The Novels of E. M. Forster * The Novels of George Meredith * The Novels of Thomas Hardy * The Novels of Turgenev * Old Mrs. Grey * Oliver Goldsmith * On Being Ill * On Not Knowing Greek * On Rereading Meredith * On Rereading Novels * The Oxford Street Tide * Outlines I. Miss Mitford * Outlines II. Bentley * Outlines III. Lady Dorothy Nevill * Outlines IV. Archbishop Thomson * Personalities * Phases of Fiction * Pictures * Portrait of a Londoner * Professions for Women * Rambling Round Evelyn * Reading * Reflections at Sheffield Place * Reviewing * Robinson Crusoe * Roger Fry * Royalty * Ruskin * Sara Coleridge * Selina Trimmer * Sir Walter Raleigh * Sir Walter Scott. Gas at Abbotsford * Sir Walter Scott. The Antiquary * Sterne * Sterne's Ghost * Street Haunting: A London Adventure * The Strange Elizabethans * Swift's Journal of Stella * The Death of the Moth * The Dream * The Duchess of Newcastle * The Elizabethan Lumber Room * The Enchanted Organ: Anne Thackeray * The Faery Queen * The Historian and The Gibbon * The Humane Art * The Leaning Tower * The Man at the Gate * The Modern Essay * The Moment: Summer’s Night * The Narrow Bridge of Art * The New Biography * The Niece of an Earl * The Novels of E. M. Forster * The Novels of George Meredith * The Novels of Thomas Hardy * The Novels of Turgenev * The Oxford Street Tide * The Pastons and Chaucer * The Patron and the Crocus * The Rev. William Cole: A Letter * The Royal Academy * The Russian Point of View * The Sentimental Journey * The Strange Elizabethans * The Sun and the Fish * Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid * Three Guineas * Three Pictures * Thunder at Wembley * To Spain * This is the House of Commons * Twelfth Night at the Old Vic * Two Antiquaries: Walpole and Cole * Two Parsons I. James Woodforde, John Skinner * Two Parsons II. John Skinner * Two Women: Emily Davies and Lady Augusta Stanley * Walter Raleigh * Walter Sickert: A Conversation * Waxworks at the Abbey * White's Selborne * Why? * William Hazlitt * Women and Fiction

Essay collections

*''Modern Fiction'' (1919) *''The Common Reader'' (1925) *''

The London Scene ''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. Origina ...

'' (1931) *''The Common Reader: Second Series'' (1932) *''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 ''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 t ...

'' (1958) *''Collected Essays'' (four volumes, 1967) *''Books and Portraits'' (1978) *''Women And Writing'' (1979)

Drama

*'' Freshwater: A Comedy'' edited by Lucio P. Ruotolo with drawings by

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 book ...

(first version 1923, revised and performed 1935, published 1976)

Translation

* ''Stavrogin's Confession & the Plan of the Life of a Great Sinner'', from the notes of

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 influent ...

, translated in partnership with S. S. Koteliansky (1922)

Autobiographical writings

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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. ...

'' (1976) nd ed. 1985*''The Platform of Time: Memoirs of Family and Friends'', edited by S. P. Rosenbaum (London, Hesperus, 2007)

Diaries and journals

*''A Writer’s Diary'' (1953) - Extracts from the complete diary *''A Moment's Liberty: the shorter diary'' (1990) *''The Diary of Virginia Woolf'' (five volumes) - Diary of Virginia Woolf from 1915 to 1941 *''Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909'' (1990) *''Travels With Virginia Woolf'' (1993) - Greek travel diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Jan Morris

Letters

*''Congenial Spirits: the selected letters'' (1993) *''The Flight of the Mind: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 1 1888 - 1912'' (1975) *''The Question of Things Happening: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 2 1913 - 1922'' (1976) *''A Change of Perspective: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 3 1923 - 1928'' (1977) *''A Reflection of the Other Person: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 4 1929 - 1931'' (1978) *''The Sickle Side of the Moon: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 5 1932 - 1935'' (1979) *''Leave the Letters Till We're Dead: Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 6 1936 - 1941'' (1980) *''Paper Darts: The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf'' (1991) *''Life as We Have Known It'' introductory letter (1931)

Prefaces and contributions

* Introduction to ''Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of

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 ...

'' ed. Alfred C. Gissing (London & New York, 1929)

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A Letter to a Young Poet ''A Letter to a Young Poet'' is an epistolary essay by Virginia Woolf, written in 1932 to John Lehman, laying out her views on modern poetry. History In 1932, Woolf responded to a letter from the writer, John Lehmann, about her novel '' The Wa ...

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List of Album Guides

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Album 2 MS Thr 559 (1909–1922)

Album 3 MS Thr 560 (1890–1933)

Album 4 MS Thr 561 (1890–1947)

Album 5 MS Thr 562 (1892–1938)

Album 6 MS Thr 563 (1850–1900)

Collections

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