Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time, and in and out of the characters' minds, to construct a complete image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure.

Introduced by Quentin Bell In her third novel, Virginia Woolf discovers her own unique voice as a novelist and the impressionistic style of her great later works. This definitive edition contains the original Hogarth Press text as overseen by the author and a list of the textual variants that appeared during her lifetime. Jacob's Room tells the moving story of Jacob Flanders, a young man killed in the First World War, and marks a turning point in the history of the English novel. It is also a remarkable work in its own right.

Den feministiske klassikeren "Et eget rom" er en nøkkel til Virginia Woolfs forfatterskap. Essayet er basert på en forelesning om kvinner og litteratur holdt i Cambridge i 1928. Det er et kraftfullt innlegg for kvinners behov for økonomisk uavhengighet og personlig frihet, ført i pennen med Woolfs særegne stilistiske letthet og eleganse. "Tre guineas" ble utgitt ti år senere, og er et brennende engasjert antikrigsskrift og et polemisk innlegg om sammenhengen mellom militarisme og patriarkalske strukturer.

Adeline Virginia Woolf (n e Stephen; 25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century, and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Born in an affluent household in Kensington, London, she attended the King's College London and was acquainted with the early reformers of women's higher education.

Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. The sky and stars as well as river Thames serve as supporting characters throughout the book. Virginia Woolf, an English writer, one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group, an enormously influential gathering of English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists. Their works and views deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, economics, and modern values and attitudes.

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The work is distinguished by its innovative narrative style and the focus on feminine consciousness and sexuality. Virginia Woolf, an English writer, one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group, an enormously influential gathering of English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists. Their works and views deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, economics, and modern values and attitudes.

»I det museum som litteraturhistorien utgör har Virginia Woolf verkligen fått sig inrättat ett eget rum - Joyce får nöja sig med att dela rum med T. S. Eliot.« | Bernur När Virginia Woolfs Samlade noveller & prosaskisser gavs ut innebar det första publiceringen av så många som 17 texter. Tillsammans med klassiska noveller som »Kew Gardens«, »Tecknet på väggen«, »Måndag eller tisdag« och »Spökhuset«, finns här skisser som visar ett av den engelska litteraturens största författarskap i tillblivelse. De äldsta texterna skrevs redan 1906, de senaste kort före hennes död 1941. Läsaren följer kronologiskt utvecklingen av Woolfs unika stil, den »medvetandeström« som blev tongivande för hela den modernistiska eran. I översättning av Margareta Ekström och med ett nyskrivet förord av Josefin Holmström, kritiker och forskare i engelsk litteratur. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882 1941] föddes i London. Med romaner som Jakobs rum [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], Mot fyren [1927] och Orlando [1928] blev hon en av modernismens förgrundsgestalter och räknas i dag till 1900-talets viktigaste engelskspråkiga författare. Som tänkare, med essäer som Ett eget rum [1929], har Woolf påverkat kvinnorörelsen i många länder.» Virginia Woolf måste räknas tillsammans med Joyce och Proust när det gäller de experimentella landvinningar som helt brutit med traditionen.« | The New York Times

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the US in 1920 by Doran. Woolf began work on The Voyage Out in 1910 and had finished an early draft by 1912. The novel had a long and difficult gestation and was not published until 1915. It was written during a period in which Woolf was especially psychologically vulnerable. She suffered from periods of depression and at one point attempted suicide. The resultant work contained the seeds of all that would blossom in her later work: the innovative narrative style, the focus on feminine consciousness, sexuality and death. In 1981, Louise DeSalvo published an alternate version of The Voyage Out featuring its original title, Melymbrosia. Professor DeSalvo worked for seven years on the project of reconstructing the text of the novel as it might have appeared in 1912, before Woolf had begun serious revisions. She reviewed more than 1,000 manuscript pages from Woolf's private papers, dating the earlier versions of the work by small organizational clues such as the color of ink used or noticing where a pen had last left off writing. DeSalvo's Melymbrosia attempts to restore the text of the novel as Woolf had originally conceived it, which contained more candid political commentary on such issues as homosexuality, women's suffrage, and colonialism. According to DeSalvo, Woolf was "warned by colleagues that publishing such an outspoken indictment of Britain could prove disastrous to her fledgling career". The work was heavily revised until it became the novel now known as The Voyage Out, which omits much of the political candour of the original. DeSalvo's edition was reissued by Cleis Press in 2002.

Virginia Woolfs stilistisk virtuose roman om Orlando, der lever over fem århundreder og skifter køn undervejs, men forbliver ung. Med dette greb undersøger Woolf, hvordan man forholder sig til sin tid og til sit køn, og hvordan de traditionelle kønsroller er begrænsende for begge køn. Romanen hævdes at være en biografi om forfatteren Vita Sackville-West. Orlando fødes som dreng i London i midten af det 16. århundrede. Ved fortællingens begyndelse er han en 16-årig skønhed, en del af den britiske adel og drømmer om at blive forfatter. Han forelsker sig ulykkeligt i en russisk prinsesse og flytter til Konstantinopel som ambassadør. I Konstantinopel skifter Orlando pludselig køn og bliver kvinde. I kraft af dette kønsskifte har Orlando nu begge køns bevidstheder, og herefter udfoldes en emotionel og intellektuel refleksion over kønsroller gennem tiden. Orlando lever en tid med sigøjnere, hvorefter hun vender tilbage til London og tilpasser sig sit nye liv som kvinde. Hun føler sig ensom og skriver digte, hun aldrig bliver tilfreds med. Under en gåtur, nu i det 19. århundrede, bevæger hun sig hurtigere og hurtigere, falder og bliver reddet af en sømand, som hun forelsker sig i og gifter sig med. Sammen får de i starten af det 20. århundrede en søn, og Orlando får udgivet et digt, som hun vinder en pris for. Fortællingen slutter den 11. oktober 1928, samme dag som romanen Orlando udkom 1928, samme dag som romanen Orlando udkom Pressen skriver: »Virginia Woolfs berusende fantasyroman ' Orlando' går i blodet og i benene, som en rastløs rejse gennem tid og rum, kredsende om eksistensens grundspørgsmål.« – Politiken