VIRGINIA WOOLF

EARLY LIFE

• 25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941
• Born in Kensington England.
• Free-thinking parents.
• Farther: historian and author.
• Mother: model, nurse, and wrote a book on the profession.
• 3 full-siblings and 4 half-siblings.
• Curious, playful, and light-hearted.

Education

• Get educated in home.
• Wrote a family newspaper.
• She learned English, Greek, Italian, Latin, and German.
• T.S. Eliot helped her a lot on writing novels.
• First novel: The Voyage Out, in 1915.

Later Life

• Her father died in 1904.
• Her sisters sold their house and they moved to London.
• Get sexual abused by her half-brother.
• She had serious depression.
• Provoking the government by acted as a prince and went to the warship.
• Committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.

HISTORY

• She was an atheist(a person who believes that there is no God).
• One of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
• During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society.
• She was a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.
• She was an feminist.

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• She was an ardent fan of attending concerts and the opera.
• Although her popularity decreased after World War II.
• Woolf and her husband Leonard hated and feared 1930s fascism with its anti semitism.
• Most of her work was self-published.

WRITING STYLE

• She was arguably the major lyrical novelist.
• She wrote some modernist classics novels like Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando.
• Pioneering feminist works.
• She focused on characters’ metal activities when she was writing a novel.

Mrs. Dalloway

• A high-society woman in England decided to hold a party in her house.
• Peter will visit her and joined her party.
• Did not want to chat with successful people.
• Married with Mr. Dalloway because he had a high status.
• At the same time, a veteran Mr. Smith committed suicide by jumping out of the window. He can not bear the death of his comrade in arm.
• Envy him because he can do what he want.

CHARACTERISTIC?

• But Peter-however beautiful the day might be,and the trees and the grass,and the little girl in pink-Peter never saw a thing of all that.

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