Subject: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 (Keywords)

Following her father's death, Katharine Smyth turned to her favourite novel, Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse', as a way of making sense of her bereavement. Written out of a lifelong admiration for Woolf and her work, Katharine's story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf's...

This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, explaining the importance of the Bloomsbury group in the development of her work. It covers the major works in detail, including 'To the Lighthouse', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'The Waves' and the key sh...

Selected & edited by Joanne Trautmann Banks, these are the finest & most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters. Spontaneous, witty, often flirtatious, powerfully moving, these letters display Woolf's courage, generosity & her genius for close & enduring friendship.

The theme that draws all of these pieces together is modernity. Woolf was writing in a world that was forever changed by the catastrophe that was World War One.

Saturday 2 February 1918. The first walk we've had for ever so long. Damp, mild vaporous day. Funeral bells tolling as we went out, & marriage as we came in. The streets lined with people waiting their meat. Aeroplanes droning invisible. Our usual evening, alone happily, knee deep in papers. This...