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Virginia Woolf: Works
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image of search history from MLA for Woolf For literature, and therefore Virginia Woolf, there are three indexes that provide the most sources for research on the author and his works. The indexes are MLA Bibliography, Academic Search Premier, and Humanities Index. However, there are additional indexes of interest, listed below.
Over sixty years after her death, the writings of Virginia Woolf are a source of continuing power and ever-increasing influence. Recognized in her own time and country as one of the most significant of the Modernists, Woolf has achieved a stature, in the twenty-first century, of international prominence. Admired first in the era of New Criticism as a supreme formalist writer, Woolf has since been recognized as one of the most important and influential feminist writers of the twentieth century and as a writer whose works are dynamically engaged with the political, philosophical, historical and materialist issues of her time.
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Virginia Woolf, one of the founders of the movement known as Modernism, is one of the most important woman writers in English. Her "stream-of-consciousness" essays and novels provide an invaluable insight into both her own life experiences and those of women at the beginning of the twentieth century. Her most famous works include Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando: A Biography (1928), The Waves (1931), and her most recognized work, A Room of One's Own (1929).
As a novelist, feminist, critic, pacifist, diarist and a key firgure of the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf played an important role in the history of women. The collection includes some of her works exactly as written, complete with doodles in the margins and complete pages crossed out. The documents offer researches new insights into the autobiographical references in her novels, and understanding of her commentaries on women's rights, pacifism, gender and other controversial topics.
Virginia Woolf is best known for her fiction. Her novels include A Voyage Out (1915), Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), and The Years (1937). Her experimental style, which focused on the mental processes of her characters, gradually gained the respect of critics, although some ridiculed her feminism. Woolf's works ... include short stories, biography, and the "autobiography" of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog (Flush, 1933).
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Virginia Woolf's last novel was published shortly after her death in March 1941. Showing a richness of invention, and the author's clear enjoyment in the writing, Beween the Acts is ... one of her most lyrical works. The story takes place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for over 120 years, and revolves around the village pageant which aspires topresent the entire history of England.
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