Reading and Writing Skills for
Students of Literature in English:
Modernism and Modernity
Enric Monforte
Jacqueline Hurtley
Bill Phillips
Virginia Woolf
A Room of
One’s Own
(1929)
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
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Virginia Woolf
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Painting of Virginia Woolf by her
sister Vanessa Bell.
1891-1904
• Writes stories for The Hyde Park Gate News
• 1895 Death of his mother—First serious
mental breakdown
• 1897 Death of her half-sister Stella
• 1904 Death of her father—Second mental
breakdown
• Virginia and her sisters and brothers move to
Bloomsbury
The Bloomsbury Group
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Clive Bell (1881-1964): art critic
Vanessa (Stephen) Bell (1879-1961): painter
Roger Fry (1866-1934): art critic and painter
Duncan Grant (1885-1978): painter
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946):
economist
• Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952): journalist
and editor
The Bloomsbury Group
• Thoby Stephen (1880-1906): the Cambridge
connection
• Adrian Stephen (1883-1948): psychoanalyst
• Lytton Strachey (1880-1932): historian
• Saxon Sydney Turner (1880-1962): civil
servant
• Leonard Woolf (1880-1969): writer, publisher
and civil servant
The Bloomsbury Group
• Virginia (Stephen) Woolf (1882-1941): writer
and publisher
• E.M.Forster (1879-1970): novelist and
publisher
The Bloomsbury group
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Clive Bell and Vanessa (Stephen) Bell
The Bloomsbury group
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Roger Fry (Self-Portrait); Duncan Grant; John Maynard Keynes
The Bloomsbury group
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Desmond MacCarthy; Thoby Stephen; Adrian
Stephen by Duncan Grant
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Lytton Strachey; Saxon Sydney Turner; Leonard
Woolf by Henry Lamb
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Virginia Woolf and E.M.Forster
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
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1904-1912
• 1905 Begins
contributing to the
Times Literary
Supplement.
• 1906-1909 Deaths of
his brother Thoby
and his aunt Caroline
E. Stephen
• Starts working on her
first novel The
Voyage Out
• 1912 Marries
Leonard Woolf
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Virginia and Leonard
Woolf's
Wedding Day, 10
August 1912
Monk’s House
(East Sussex)
Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived
here together from 1919 until her
suicide in 1941; Leonard remained
in the home until his death in 1969
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Left, Virginia's writing lodge at the
rear of the Monk's House property
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Monk’s House (East Sussex)
Virginia Woolf's
writing lodge
1936 Serious mental
breakdown
1941 Commits suicide
Colour Print of Virginia Woolf taken by
Gisèle Freund (1939)
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Virginia Woolf’s works
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The Voyage Out (1915)
Night and Day (1919)
Jacob’s Room (1922)
Mrs Dalloway & The Common Reader: First Series (1925)
To the Lighthouse (1927)
Orlando (1928)
A Room of One’s Own (1929)
The Waves (1931)
The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)
Flush (1933)
The Years (1937)
Three Guineas (1938)
Between the Acts (1941)
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