By Jane Goldman
For college students of recent literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are crucial studying. In her novels, brief tales, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her inner most letters she explored, puzzled and refashioned every little thing approximately sleek existence: cinema, sexuality, procuring, schooling, feminism, politics and conflict. Her based and startlingly unique sentences grew to become a version of modernist prose. this can be a transparent and informative advent to Woolf's lifestyles, works, and cultural and demanding contexts, explaining the significance of the Bloomsbury staff within the improvement of her paintings. It covers the main works intimately, together with To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and the main brief tales. in addition to offering scholars with the fundamental info had to research Woolf, Jane Goldman indicates extra interpreting to permit scholars to discover their manner in the course of the most crucial serious works. All scholars of Woolf will locate this an invaluable and illuminating review of the sector.
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Her letters and diaries belie this myth. Bell also characterises Woolf as similarly unworldly in the sphere of politics, even in her antifascism during the 1930s: But were we then to scuttle like frightened spinsters before the fascist thugs? She belonged, inescapably, to the Victorian world of Empire, Class and privilege. Her gift was for the pursuit of shadows, for the ghostly whispers of the mind and for Pythian incomprehensibility, when what was needed was the swift and lucid phrase that could reach the ears of unemployed working men or Trades Union oYcials.
In attempting to understand in what contexts we are to understand Woolf, then, this chapter addresses firstly Woolf ’s biographies, which have in many ways been considerable influences on the contexts in which her writing is understood, and then considers how Woolf has been positioned in the context of Bloomsbury and its other members, in the wider historical and political contexts of her time, and in the context of modern and contemporary culture. There are numerous biographies, images, mythologies, constructions, and accounts of Woolf as a person and a writer that have been generated in the past half-century or so.
Thin and shaken, but sane enough to be able to live at peace with Vanessa’ (VWB1 90). Bell’s description of her symptoms at this time has been widely circulated: ‘listening to the birds singing in Greek and imagining that King Edward VII lurked in the azaleas using the foulest possible language’ (VWB1 90). His account of her death emphasises the onset of her ‘madness’ (VWB2 224). Quentin Bell’s biography is also a main source for the received opinion on Woolf ’s sexuality – or apparent lack of it.
