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| + | "The [[diary]] is too personal to be published as a whole during the lifetime of many people referred to in it. It is, I think, nearly always a mistake to publish extracts from diaries or letters, particularly if the omissions have to be made in order to protect the [[feelings]] or [[reputations]] of the living. The omissions almost always distort or conceal the true character of the diarist or letter-writer and produce spiritually what an [[Academy picture]] does materially, smoothing out the wrinkles, warts, frowns, and [[asperities]]. At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer, because, as Virginia Woolf herself remarks somewhere in these diaries, one gets into the habit of recording one particular kind of mood — irritation or misery’, say — and of not writing one’s diary when one is feeling the opposite. The portrait is therefore from the start unbalanced, and, if someone then deliberately removes another characteristic, it may well become a mere caricature." --''[[A Writer's Diary (Virginia Woolf)|A Writer's Diary]]'' (1953) by Virginia Woolf | ||
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| + | '''Virginia Woolf''' (1882 – 1941) was an [[English writer]] regarded as one of the foremost [[modernist literature|modernist]] [[literature|literary]] figures of the twentieth century. | ||
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| + | During the [[interwar period]], Woolf was a significant figure in [[London]] literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]]. Her most famous works include the novels ''[[Mrs Dalloway]]'' (1925), ''[[To the Lighthouse]]'' (1927), and ''[[Orlando: A Biography|Orlando]]'' (1928), and the book-length essay ''[[A Room of One's Own]]'' (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction". | ||
| + | ==Cultural references== | ||
| + | * [[Michael Cunningham]]'s [[1998]] novel ''[[The Hours (novel)|The Hours]]'' uses some of Woolf's characteristic stylistic tools to intertwine a story of the Virginia who is writing ''Mrs Dalloway'' with stories of two other women decades apart, each of whom is planning a party. The book was adapted into a [[The Hours (film)|2002 film]]. | ||
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| + | * Playwright [[Edward Albee]] asked Woolf's widower Leonard Woolf for permission to use his wife's name in the title of his play ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'', which concerns a clash between a university professor and his wife as they host a younger faculty couple for evening cocktails. The [[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|film adaptation]] of the play is the only film to be nominated in every eligible category at the Academy Awards. | ||
| + | ==Bibliography== | ||
| + | :''[[Virginia Woolf bibliography]]'' | ||
| + | ===Novels=== | ||
| + | * ''[[The Voyage Out]]'' (1915) | ||
| + | * ''[[Night and Day (Woolf novel)|Night and Day]]'' (1919) | ||
| + | * ''[[Jacob's Room]]'' (1922) | ||
| + | * ''[[Mrs Dalloway]]'' (1925) | ||
| + | * ''[[To the Lighthouse]]'' (1927) | ||
| + | * ''[[Orlando: A Biography|Orlando]]'' (1928) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Waves]]'' (1931) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Years]]'' (1937) | ||
| + | * ''[[Between the Acts]]'' (1941) | ||
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| + | ===Short story collections=== | ||
| + | * ''Kew Gardens'' (1919) | ||
| + | * ''[[Monday or Tuesday]]'' (1921) | ||
| + | * ''[[A Haunted House and Other Short Stories]]'' (1944) | ||
| + | * ''Mrs Dalloway's Party'' (1973) | ||
| + | * ''The Complete Shorter Fiction'' (1985) | ||
| + | * "Carlyle's House and Other Sketches" (2003) | ||
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| + | ===Biographies=== | ||
| + | Virginia Woolf published three books to which she gave the subtitle "A Biography": | ||
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| + | * ''[[Orlando: A Biography]]'' (1928, usually characterised as a ''novel'' inspired by the life of [[Vita Sackville-West]]) | ||
| + | * ''[[Flush: A Biography]]'' (1933, more explicitly cross-genre: ''fiction'' as "stream of consciousness" tale by Flush, a dog; ''non-fiction'' in the sense of telling the story of the owner of the dog, [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]]), reprinted in 2005 by [[Persephone Books]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Roger Fry: A Biography]]'' (1940, usually characterised as ''non-fiction'', however: "[Woolf's] novelistic skills worked against her talent as a biographer, for her impressionistic observations jostled uncomfortably with the simultaneous need to marshal a multitude of facts.") | ||
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| + | ===Non-fiction books=== | ||
| + | * ''Modern Fiction'' (1919) | ||
| + | * ''The Common Reader'' (1925) | ||
| + | * ''[[A Room of One's Own]]'' (1929) | ||
| + | * ''[[On Being Ill]]'' (1930) | ||
| + | * ''The London Scene'' (1931) | ||
| + | * ''The Common Reader: Second Series'' (1932) | ||
| + | * ''[[Three Guineas]]'' (1938) | ||
| + | * ''The Death of the Moth and Other Essays'' (1942) | ||
| + | * ''The Moment and Other Essays'' (1947) | ||
| + | * ''The Captain's Death Bed And Other Essays'' (1950) | ||
| + | * ''[[Granite and Rainbow]]'' (1958) | ||
| + | * ''Books and Portraits'' (1978) | ||
| + | * ''Women And Writing'' (1979) | ||
| + | * ''Collected Essays'' (four volumes) | ||
| + | |||
| + | ===Drama=== | ||
| + | * ''[[Freshwater: A Comedy]]'' (performed in 1923, revised in 1935, and published in 1976) | ||
| + | |||
| + | ===Translations=== | ||
| + | |||
| + | * ''Stavrogin's Confession & the Plan of 'The Life of a Great Sinner''', from the notes of [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], translated in partnership with [[S. S. Koteliansky]] (1922) | ||
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| + | ===Autobiographical writings and diaries=== | ||
| + | * ''[[A Writer's Diary (Virginia Woolf)|A Writer's Diary]]'' (1953)—Extracts from the complete diary | ||
| + | * ''[[Moments of Being]]'' (1976) | ||
| + | * ''A Moment's Liberty: the shorter diary'' (1990) | ||
| + | * ''The Diary of Virginia Woolf'' (five volumes)—Diary of Virginia Woolf from 1915 to 1941 | ||
| + | * ''Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897–1909'' (1990) | ||
| + | * ''Travels With Virginia Woolf'' (1993)—Greek travel diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Jan Morris | ||
| + | * ''The Platform of Time: Memoirs of Family and Friends'', Expanded Edition, edited by S. P. Rosenbaum (London, Hesperus, 2008) | ||
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| + | ===Letters=== | ||
| + | * ''Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters'' (1993) | ||
| + | * ''The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888–1941'' (six volumes, 1975–1980) | ||
| + | * ''Paper Darts: The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf'' (1991) | ||
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| + | ===Prefaces, contributions=== | ||
| + | * ''Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of [[George Gissing]]'' ed. [[Alfred Gissing|Alfred C. Gissing]], with an introduction by Virginia Woolf (London & New York, 1929) | ||
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"The diary is too personal to be published as a whole during the lifetime of many people referred to in it. It is, I think, nearly always a mistake to publish extracts from diaries or letters, particularly if the omissions have to be made in order to protect the feelings or reputations of the living. The omissions almost always distort or conceal the true character of the diarist or letter-writer and produce spiritually what an Academy picture does materially, smoothing out the wrinkles, warts, frowns, and asperities. At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer, because, as Virginia Woolf herself remarks somewhere in these diaries, one gets into the habit of recording one particular kind of mood — irritation or misery’, say — and of not writing one’s diary when one is feeling the opposite. The portrait is therefore from the start unbalanced, and, if someone then deliberately removes another characteristic, it may well become a mere caricature." --A Writer's Diary (1953) by Virginia Woolf |
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Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) was an English writer regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction".
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Cultural references
- Michael Cunningham's 1998 novel The Hours uses some of Woolf's characteristic stylistic tools to intertwine a story of the Virginia who is writing Mrs Dalloway with stories of two other women decades apart, each of whom is planning a party. The book was adapted into a 2002 film.
- Playwright Edward Albee asked Woolf's widower Leonard Woolf for permission to use his wife's name in the title of his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which concerns a clash between a university professor and his wife as they host a younger faculty couple for evening cocktails. The film adaptation of the play is the only film to be nominated in every eligible category at the Academy Awards.
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Bibliography
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Novels
- The Voyage Out (1915)
- Night and Day (1919)
- Jacob's Room (1922)
- Mrs Dalloway (1925)
- To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Orlando (1928)
- The Waves (1931)
- The Years (1937)
- Between the Acts (1941)
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Short story collections
- Kew Gardens (1919)
- Monday or Tuesday (1921)
- A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944)
- Mrs Dalloway's Party (1973)
- The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)
- "Carlyle's House and Other Sketches" (2003)
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Biographies
Virginia Woolf published three books to which she gave the subtitle "A Biography":
- Orlando: A Biography (1928, usually characterised as a novel inspired by the life of Vita Sackville-West)
- Flush: A Biography (1933, more explicitly cross-genre: fiction as "stream of consciousness" tale by Flush, a dog; non-fiction in the sense of telling the story of the owner of the dog, Elizabeth Barrett Browning), reprinted in 2005 by Persephone Books
- Roger Fry: A Biography (1940, usually characterised as non-fiction, however: "[Woolf's] novelistic skills worked against her talent as a biographer, for her impressionistic observations jostled uncomfortably with the simultaneous need to marshal a multitude of facts.")
[edit]
Non-fiction books
- Modern Fiction (1919)
- The Common Reader (1925)
- A Room of One's Own (1929)
- On Being Ill (1930)
- The London Scene (1931)
- The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)
- Three Guineas (1938)
- The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)
- The Moment and Other Essays (1947)
- The Captain's Death Bed And Other Essays (1950)
- Granite and Rainbow (1958)
- Books and Portraits (1978)
- Women And Writing (1979)
- Collected Essays (four volumes)
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Drama
- Freshwater: A Comedy (performed in 1923, revised in 1935, and published in 1976)
[edit]
Translations
- Stavrogin's Confession & the Plan of 'The Life of a Great Sinner', from the notes of Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated in partnership with S. S. Koteliansky (1922)
[edit]
Autobiographical writings and diaries
- A Writer's Diary (1953)—Extracts from the complete diary
- Moments of Being (1976)
- A Moment's Liberty: the shorter diary (1990)
- The Diary of Virginia Woolf (five volumes)—Diary of Virginia Woolf from 1915 to 1941
- Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897–1909 (1990)
- Travels With Virginia Woolf (1993)—Greek travel diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Jan Morris
- The Platform of Time: Memoirs of Family and Friends, Expanded Edition, edited by S. P. Rosenbaum (London, Hesperus, 2008)
[edit]
Letters
- Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters (1993)
- The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888–1941 (six volumes, 1975–1980)
- Paper Darts: The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf (1991)
[edit]
Prefaces, contributions
- Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of George Gissing ed. Alfred C. Gissing, with an introduction by Virginia Woolf (London & New York, 1929)
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