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Virginia Woolf, It is believed that Woolf had a same-sex relationship with…

- - - - "Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male and female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above"(139).
      - In this novel, Woolf presents Gender in a unique way that deviates greatly from how this identity is usually portrayed in media. The titular protagonist is male at the start of the story, and female at the end. This transformation provides many opportunities for comparison between these two gender identities and how they are both expressed and perceived.
  - - - "On Seeing Illness: Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway"
        This article details Woolf's personal experience with illnesses, with the primary example being Influenza. Her mother passes away due to health complications related to influenza and Woolf herself repeatedly contracted the virus. The article's author Elizabeth Outka also suggests that Mrs. Dalloway can be read as a novel about influenza, as the protagonist Clarissa demonstrates "the lingering physical and psychological damage the virus could inflict even months and years after the attack." This is one of the many ways in which the influence of Woolf's personal over her literary works is evident.
    - - Mrs. Dalloway
        In this novel, Septimus is a veteran struggling with PTSD. This manifests in the form of hallucinations and a frequent inability to function at a social level due to his lack of trust in the world around him. That Dr. Holmes believes "there was nothing the matter with him" (23) is indicative of a society where conversations regarding mental illness are stigmatized, and the scientific understanding of such illnesses is in an early, basic stage.
      - The Hours
        In this film, Woolf's character struggles with depression and anxiety. The themes of suicidal ideation and mental illness are also explored through the characters Richard and Laura. The detrimental effects of Depression are evident in each of the three eras depicted in the film, demonstrating how such issues persist for many individuals despite how the conversation regarding mental illness evolves over time.
        
        The Hours depicts Woolf's suicide.
- - - - The Hours
        This film is not a direct adaptation of any of Woolf's works, but rather the story of how her book Mrs. Dalloway connects the lives of three women living in different eras, one of these women being Woolf herself. The eras depicted are the 1920s, 1950s, and early 2000s, and the scenes are not ordered chronologically by era.
      - Orlando
        This film, directed by Sally Potter, is based on Woolf's novel of the same title. Like the novel, this story takes place over centuries and features a protagonist who changes sex. The film omits many of the book's original plot point for easier and clearer cinematic storytelling purposes.
    - - Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando are all novels. However, Orlando is presented as a biography. The events of the story are fictitious, but the biographical lens through which Woolf writes is a bold stylistic deviation from the stream of consciousness form that the two other novels employ.
      - Stream of Consciousness
        
        "Woolf and the Flesh of the World"
        In this article, Louise Westling states that Virginia Woolf increasingly "sought to portray the non human, or what David Abram calls the "more than human" world within which we are tiny and only momentary presences." This is largely achieved through stream of consciousness form, in which the story's narration is largely the characters' internal dialogues, rather than a traditional omniscient retelling of events.
        
        To The Lighthouse
        This novel is a prime example of Woolf's use of stream of consciousness storytelling, as the narration delves into the minds of characters like Lily Briscoe and Mrs. Ramsay to create an intimate and dynamique portrayal of these characters and their relationships with one another. This allows for the comparison of each character's internal thought process and their external behavior.
    - - That these two texts utilize an essay format lends to easier comparison. The social commentary in Three Guineas is broader in terms of its scope and perhaps more universally critical of the systems that prevent women from succeeding, whereas A Room of One's Own focuses more specifically on the issues female writers of fiction face,
      - In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
        This is a collection of essays, articles, and speeches by Alice Walker.