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Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English:
Modernism and Modernity
Enric Monforte
Jacqueline Hurtley
Bill Phillips
Virginia Woolf
Painting of Virginia Woolf by her sister Vanessa Bell.
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1891-1904
• Writes stories for The Hyde Park Gate News• 1895 Death of his mother—First serious
mental breakdown• 1897 Death of her half-sister Stella• 1904 Death of her father—Second mental
breakdown• Virginia and her sisters and brothers move to
Bloomsbury
The Bloomsbury Group
• Clive Bell (1881-1964): art critic• Vanessa (Stephen) Bell (1879-1961): painter• Roger Fry (1866-1934): art critic and painter• Duncan Grant (1885-1978): painter• John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946):
economist • Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952): journalist
and editor
The Bloomsbury Group
• Thoby Stephen (1880-1906): the Cambridge connection
• Adrian Stephen (1883-1948): psychoanalyst• Lytton Strachey (1880-1932): historian • Saxon Sydney Turner (1880-1962): civil
servant• Leonard Woolf (1880-1969): writer, publisher
and civil servant
The Bloomsbury Group
• Virginia (Stephen) Woolf (1882-1941): writer and publisher
• E.M.Forster (1879-1970): novelist and publisher
The Bloomsbury group
Clive Bell and Vanessa (Stephen) Bell
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The Bloomsbury group
Roger Fry (Self-Portrait); Duncan Grant; John Maynard Keynes
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The Bloomsbury group
Desmond MacCarthy; Thoby Stephen; Adrian Stephen by Duncan Grant
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The Bloomsbury group
Lytton Strachey; Saxon Sydney Turner; Leonard Woolf by Henry Lamb
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The Bloomsbury group
Virginia Woolf and E.M.Forster
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1904-1912
• 1905 Begins contributing to the Times Literary Supplement.
• 1906-1909 Deaths of his brother Thoby and his aunt Caroline E. Stephen
• Starts working on her first novel The Voyage Out
• 1912 Marries Leonard Woolf
Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Wedding Day, 10 August 1912
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Monk’s House (East Sussex)
Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived here together from 1919 until her suicide in 1941; Leonard remained in the home until his death in 1969
Left, Virginia's writing lodge at the rear of the Monk's House property
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1941 Commits suicide
Colour Print of Virginia Woolf taken by Gisèle Freund (1939)
1936 Serious mental
breakdown
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Virginia Woolf’s works
• The Voyage Out (1915)• Night and Day (1919)• Jacob’s Room (1922)• Mrs Dalloway & The Common Reader: First Series (1925)• To the Lighthouse (1927)• Orlando (1928)• A Room of One’s Own (1929)• The Waves (1931)• The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)• Flush (1933)• The Years (1937)• Three Guineas (1938)• Between the Acts (1941)