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Virginia Woolf
Considered by the author herself to be "the best of [her] books," To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's third novel and modernist masterpiece.
In 1910, the Ramsays gather at their…
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Beth Kephart
Illustrates the many ways to claim a space for oneself–as not all rooms require four walls and a roof to think, to dream, or to be.
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Nanette O?Brien
Tracing a line of transatlantic aesthetics and gendered productions of modernism, this monograph reveals the centrality of agriculture, cookery, domestic work and institutional dining to modernist authors.
Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the…
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Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable…
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Alexandra Harris
Presents a case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the modern period.
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Kew Gardens & A Society: Level 600 Reader (L+) (CEFR B1) includes modernized and simplified versions of two popular stories by Virginia Woolf.
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WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JACKIE KAY AND LISA JARDINE A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. The…
For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War…
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In Virgnia Woolf’s novel - which inspired the 2003 film The Hours - Mrs Dalloway is an assured socialite. Yet as she prepares for her party on a hot London…
Chase your inspiration alongside inspiring quotes from English author Virginia Woolf.
Michael Rosenthal
First published in 1979, Virginia Woolf is an original critical study of where the author considers Virginia Woolf's non-fiction as well as fiction, exploring the different ways Woolf sought to…
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Laura Marcus
Examines a wide range of Virginia Woolf’s novels, short stories, essays and autobiographical writings in the context of themes and topics of central contemporary relevance and interest: time, history and…
Rachel Bowlby’s anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions…
Dorothy Brewster
Originally published in 1962, Virginia Woolf, provides a commentary on the literary work of Virginia Woolf - examining not only her the novels, but also the considerable body of criticism…
James Acheson
James Acheson presents a vibrant collection of brand new essays on Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘To the Lighthouse’. A team of leading scholars provide stimulating re-assessments and fresh critical…
Hermione Lee
A richly layered portrait of the writer and the woman that leaves all of her complexities and contradictions intact. Such issues as sexual abuse, mental illness and suicide are brought…
Ira Nadel
Featuring new details about Virginia Woolf’s homes and personal life, this engaging biography offers a fresh insight into her work, focusing on how place as much as imagination fashioned her…
A biography of Virginia Woolf which moves freely between a detailed life-story and attempts to understand significant questions. She is presented as occupying a distinct and even uneasy position within…
Joan Bennett
Behind this study of Virginia Woolf’s novels is an intense interest in the person revealed in the novelist. The criticism is warm as well as acute and the whole study…
Nigel Nicolson
‘You cannot find peace by avoiding life’ Virginia Woolf An intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - ‘All you need to know…
Carl Woodring
Dans un recit bouleversant, Viviane Forrester nous presente une Virginia Woolf chatoyante, desopilante et meurtrie, differente certainement de la legende batie par son mari Leonard… Une femme qui eut a…
"I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another."
Virginia Woolf's Orlando is the extraordinary biography of a young nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I who transforms…
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM AND CAROL ANN DUFFY In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman’s life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party…
EDITED BY JOANNE TRAUTMANN BANKS, WITH A PREFACE BY HERMIONE LEE The finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf’s letters are brought together in a single volume.
Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings…
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Discover Virginia Woolf’s landmark essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity
A Room of One’s Own is one of Virginia Woolf’s most influential works and widely recognized for…
Simon Martin
The natural world as seen through the eyes of British artists including Eric Ravilious, Clare Leighton, and John Piper
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This is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father’s ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a…
Enter the world of Clarissa Dalloway and enjoy the writings of one of the most prolific female authors of the 20th century with this beautifully rejuvenated edition of Woolf’s novel.
Merve Emre (University of Oxford),Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic.
This rich introduction to the art of Virginia Woolf contains the complete texts of five short stories and eight essays, together with substantial excerpts from the longer fiction and nonfiction…
Translating Virginia Woolf traces the history of the translation and reception of Woolf’s literary production in Arabic, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, and Swedish. It privileges an interdisciplinary…
Morris Beja
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Nicholas Marsh
A study of Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse and The Waves. Through analysis of selected extracts from the novels, the reader is taught to explore the writing Woolf achieved and…
Vanessa Curtis
This biography concentrates exclusively on Woolf’s close and inspirational female friendships with the key women in her life. Vanessa Curtis looks both at the effect of these relationships on her…
Julia Briggs
The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf’s writings is at the heart of this book as Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf’s work - from some of her earliest fictional experiments…
Randi Saloman
Explores the way Virginia Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel. This book includes revisionary accounts of A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three…
Lisa Williams
Letters to Virginia Woolf is both a lyrical memoir and meditation on Woolf’s life and writing. In six concise parts, Lisa Williams writes letters to Virginia Woolf that reflect on…
Edward Bishop
An attempt to draw together the important details of Woolf’s working life in a single volume, allowing the reader to trace her development as novelist, feminist and literary journalist against…