Woolf contributed significantly to prose fiction through her experiments with stream of consciousness and characterization. She also influenced critical thought through her analytical essays and reviews.
Includes her life, critical writing, feminism, first novels, Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves, Flush, The Years, Between the Acts, and a bibliography.
Achievements, biography, and analysis of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, The Years, and a bibliography.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a novelist whose innovations in narrative form and point of view have earned her acclaim as one of the most accomplished modernist writers. She was also an active literary critic, who composed nearly 500 critical pieces (more than 1,000,000 words) over almost 40 years as a professional writer.
This overview of Virginia Woolf's life and work from the Famous Author's series introduces the writer's upperclass family and their many literary friends who cultivated her talents and later inspired characters. The film takes a look at Woolf's response to the early loss of her mother and sister and her mental health struggles thereafter.
Throughout the 1920s, Virginia Woolf produced a string of groundbreaking works in which she set out to reinvent the novel to suit the British age of doubt. Writers and novelists discuss "Mrs. Dalloway."