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Virginia Woolf (Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 (Her father was a…
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was born in 1882
Her father was a Victorian man of letters.
So she grew up in a literary and intellectual atmosphere and
her education consisted of private Greek lessons
and access to her father's library
She spent her summers in
Cornwall and the sea remained central to
her art as a symbol.
water can represent
what is harmonious, feminine
possiblity of the resolution of
intolerable conflicts in death
With her father's death
She decided to move to Bloomsdury and
together with her sister Vanessa she became
a member of the Bloomsdury Group
Their reputation as radical thinkers was
founded on the revolutionary stream-of-consciousness
prose style developed by Virginia Woolf
Bloomsbury members virtually defined
the social, political, and creative
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in 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf
and in 1915 she published The Voyage Out
her first novel. in 1925 the novel Mrs. Dalloway
appeared, here Virginia successfully
experimented with new narrative techniques
followed by
To the Lighthouse
and
Orlando
in October she delivered 2 conferences
at Cambridge which became
a Room of One's Own
a work of great impact on
the feminist movement.in This text she explored
many issues connected with women and
writing but above all insisted on the
inseparable link between
artistic indipendence
economic independence
2 World War increased her anxiety and fears
she became terrorized
of losing her mind, finally she drowned
herself in the river Ouse, she was 59
Virgina Woolf was interested in giving
voice to the complex inner world
of feeling and memory and conceived the
human personality as a continuous shift
of the impressions and emotions
so the events were no longer important
in her novels the omniscient narrator disappeared
and the point of view shifted inside the
the characters' minds through flashbacks
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as for Joyce also for Woolf
reality came to be identified with the technique
called stream of consciousness
similar to Joyce's epiphanies are Woolf's
moment of being
rare moments of insight
during the character' daily life when they
can see reality behind appearances