The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim and Isobel Maddison (ed.)
Four very different women—the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline ...
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Jacob’s Room
Virginia Woolf and Urmila Seshagiri (ed.)
Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf’s third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit ...
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The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
‘I shall never forget the day I wrote “The Mark on the Wall” - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. “The Unwritten Novel” was the great discovery, ...
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Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of ...
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Night and Day
Virginia Woolf and Suzanne Raitt (ed.)
Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf’s own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine’s case, her poet ...
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Selected Stories
Katherine Mansfield and Angela Smith (ed.)
‘I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.’ Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield’s work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. ...
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To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and ...
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The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf and Lorna Sage (ed.)
The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father’s ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a ...
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