Virginia Woolf

Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown is an essay by Virginia Woolf published in 1924 which explores modernity. Woolf addresses what she sees as the arrival of modernism, with the much cited phrase "that on or about December 1910 human character changed", referring to Roger Fry's exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists. She argued that this in turn led to a change in human relations, and thence to change

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Two Stories is the first publication produced by the Hogarth Press, the publishing house established by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1917. It consisted of two short stories, "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf and Three Jews by Leonard Woolf. The work consisted of 32 pages, hand bound and sewn, and illustrated by woodcuts designed by Dora Carrington. The illustrations were a success, leading Virginia to remark that the press was "specially good...

Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando is her most entertaining and exciting book. The mock biography recounts the life of a sixteenth-century nobleman who ends up as a woman writer in 1920s England. Over the centuries Orlando lives through the gamut of human experience as both a man and a woman. It is an irreverent send-up of dutifully rendered biographies of great men, a tongue-in-cheek commentary on some formal innovations in Woolf's novels, and a...

Figura destacada del llamado «Grupo de Bloomsbury», Virginia Woolf fue autora de una serie de relatos que la sitúan en la vanguardia del movimiento renovador de las técnicas narrativas. Fue en la amalgama de sentimientos, pensamientos y emociones, que es la subjetividad, donde Woolf encontró el material apropiado para una narrativa que contribuyó a forjar la sensibilidad contemporánea. "Escribía contra la corriente", según afirma la...

Miss Rachel Vinrace, aged twenty-four and previously interested only in music, is on a voyage both literal and metaphorical. An ocean cruise with her father leaves her for the summer at her Aunt’s villa in an unnamed South American country, where she meets the English inhabitants of the local town’s hotel. As the season progresses she starts to become entangled in their own lives and passions, and through those burgeoning acquaintances and friendships...

"La duquesa y el joyero" de Virginia Woolf es un cuento que explora las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y las expectativas sociales. La historia sigue a Oliver Bacon, un joyero modesto, que se enamora perdidamente de la duquesa de Lambourne, una mujer de alta alcurnia. A pesar de las diferencias sociales abismales entre ellos, Bacon cree que puede conquistar el corazón de la duquesa con un regalo extraordinario: un collar de esmeraldas. Sin...

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Una habitación propia es un ensayo escrito por Virginia Woolf. Publicado por primera vez el 24 de octubre de 1929, el ensayo está basado en una serie de conferencias que la autora desarrolló en octubre de 1928 en el Newnham College y el Girton College, ambas universidades femeninas de la Universidad de Cambridge.​ Si bien el

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"This Norton Critical Edition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is based on the first American edition from 1925. The novel follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a married, high society woman in London as she prepares to host a party. Set in the aftermath of World War I, the novel explores the world's social and psychological consequences, juxtaposing Dalloway's ordinary day against that of Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked war veteran....