Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Modernism and Modernity Enric Monforte Jacqueline Hurtley Bill Phillips.

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

Painting of Virginia Woolf by her sister Vanessa Bell.

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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

• 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

Clive Bell and Vanessa (Stephen) Bell

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The Bloomsbury group

Roger Fry (Self-Portrait); Duncan Grant; John Maynard Keynes

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The Bloomsbury group

Desmond MacCarthy; Thoby Stephen; Adrian Stephen by Duncan Grant

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The Bloomsbury group

Lytton Strachey; Saxon Sydney Turner; Leonard Woolf by Henry Lamb

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The Bloomsbury group

Virginia Woolf and E.M.Forster

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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

Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Wedding Day, 10 August 1912

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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

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

1941 Commits suicide

Colour Print of Virginia Woolf taken by Gisèle Freund (1939)

1936 Serious mental

breakdown

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Virginia Woolf’s works

• 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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