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VIRGINA WOOLF (1882-1941) - Coggle Diagram
VIRGINA WOOLF (1882-1941)
EARLY LIFE
She began to revolt against her father's aggressive character and his idealisation of the domesticated woman
1904: death of her father
1895: death of her mother
Brought about her first nervous breakdown
1912: She married Leonard Woolf
She grew up in a literary and intellectual atmosphere
1915: Publication of her first novel
The Voyage Out
Born in London
1925: Publication of
Mrs Dalloway
1927: Publication of
To the Lighthouse
1928: Publication of
Orlando
1925: Publication of literary essay
The Common Reader
1929: Publication of
A Room of One's Own
1931: Publication of her novel
The Waves
THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP (1905)
She became the founder of this group
She moves to Bloomsbury
After her father's death, she was free to begin her own life
Disrespect for traditional morality and Victorian respectability, a rejection of artistic convention. disdain for bourgeois sexual code and they were sceptical about religion, socialism and war.
A MODERNIST NOVELIST
She saw the human personality as a continous shift of impressions and emotions
Brillant essayist
The omniscient narrator disappeared
Talented literary critic
The point of view shifted inside the different characters' minds
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (1929)
Inseparable link between economic and artistic indipendence
Exploration of many issues connected with women
Great impact on the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s