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Virginia Woolf celebrated in Westport read-athon

Westport-News - Jan 26, 2012
Fast is the impetus behind the celebration of one such trailblazer -- English writer, literary critic and feminist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), whose life was complicated by mental illness and the burden of competing in a patriarchal society that put ...

Virginia Woolf: Provocative quotes for her 130th birthday

Washington Post (blog) - Jan 25, 2012
By Cara Kelly Virginia Woolf left behind a legacy of words that influence writers to this day, 130 years after her birth. Virginia Woolf - FILE PHOTO. (Unknown - FILE PHOTO) So on her birthday, we've pulled some of the most provocative quotes from the ...

How to date Virginia Woolf

Christian Science Monitor - Jan 25, 2012
Your grad school professor fixes you up with Virginia Woolf on a blind date. “Report back to me with a two-page paper,” he tells you. The date does not go well. You want to quit after pre-dinner appetizers, but she insists on a five-course dinner.

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Virginia Woolf books

Mrs. Dalloway

by: Virginia Woolf
Harcourt is proud to introduce new annotated editions of three Virginia Woolf classics, ideal for the college classroom and beyond. For the first time, students reading these books will have the resources at hand to help them understand the text as well as the reasons and methods behind Woolf's writing. We've commissioned the best-known Woolf scholars in the field to provide invaluable introductions, editing, critical analysis, and suggestions for further reading. These much-awaited volumes are the first of many annotated Woolf editions Harcourt plans on publishing in the coming years.
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Pilgrimage

by: Annie Leibovitz
Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn’t on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. A few months later, she went with her three young children to Niagara Falls. “That’s when I started making lists,” she says. She added the houses of Virginia Woolf and Charles Darwin in the English countryside and Sigmund Freud’s final home, in London, but most of the places on the lists were American.
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To the Lighthouse

by: Virginia Woolf

“Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality.”—Eudora Welty, from the Introduction

 

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.
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A Room of One's Own

by: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society

 

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister—a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, she takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without.
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