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3 days ago · Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ w ʊ l f /; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer.She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London.She was the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie ...
4 days ago · How Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann found creativity in the countryside A list is both much and little. It allows the biographer a glimpse of a life in scraps and ...
1 day ago · Virginia Woolf, widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative writers of the 20th century, is often seen as a master of the modernist novel.Her unique writing style, which blurred the lines between fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose, and reality and fantasy, has fascinated readers and scholars alike. However, less attention has been given to the humble notebook and list ...
1 day ago · Jennifer Homans reviews “Woolf Works,” a triptych of dances by the British choreographer Wayne McGregor, based on the life and work of Virginia Woolf, which was recently given its U.S ...
5 days ago · So one can clearly see how Woolf, though she was not a Christian, owed a great debt to Christianity as a woman writer, as do many women writers. May this be more acknowledged in the future; my writing this is but a small start toward that recognition. Footnotes. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (Boston: Mariner Books, 2005), 3.
3 days ago · Virginia Woolf. ‘Modern science’s way of representing pursues and entraps nature as a calculable coherence of forces’, wrote Martin Heidegger in 1954, 1 echoing a half-a-century old insight that ‘ [a] physical theory is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which aim ...
2 days ago · Virginia Woolf, Jane Cholmeley, and authors who wrote too much or not enough – welcome to episode 129! In the first half, we use a great topic suggestion by David – do we prefer authors…
