Author: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 (Keywords)

Woolf attempts to see literature from the perspective of the 'common reader', someone whom she distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She investigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists.

Woolf attempts to see literature from the perspective of the 'common reader', someone whom she distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She investigates the novels of George Gissing, the poetry of Donne, Mary Wollstonecraft and many others.

At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation...

Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness and regret. Past, present, and future are brought together one mome...

This classic story by Virginia Woolf was modelled on her friend Vita Sackville-West's personality. Orlando chooses her own sexual identity as she lives through three centuries as both a man and a woman.

Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time pass...

Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.