Virginia Woolf
Novelist · Essayist · English · Modernist
Virginia Woolf
1882–1941
She moved the novel from what happens to what it feels like while it is happening. A room, a wave, a whole life in an afternoon.
The life
Raised in a house of Victorian literature and Victorian silence, she survived the deaths of mother, sister and brother, and a lifetime of breakdowns. With Leonard she ran the Hogarth Press and printed her own experiments. She walked into the Ouse in 1941 with stones in her pockets, leaving a letter of appalling tenderness.
The writings
Novel
Novel · 1925
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Mrs Dalloway
1925 · Modernism · Stream of consciousness
One June day in London; a party; a shell-shocked veteran at the far edge of the same city.
Novel · 1927
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
To the Lighthouse
1927 · Modernism
A postponed voyage, a decade of empty rooms, and a painting finished at last.
