Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature

Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Modernism and Modernity Enric Monforte Jacqueline Hurtley Bill Phillips

Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own (1929) http: //www. twakan. com

Virginia Woolf (1882 -1941) http: //www. garboforever. com http: //www. blog. syracuse. com

Virginia Woolf http: //www. theblurb. com. au http: //www. purlbee. com Painting of Virginia Woolf by her sister Vanessa Bell.

1891 -1904 • Writes stories for The Hyde Park Gate News • 1895 Death of his mother—First serious mental breakdown • 1897 Death of her half-sister Stella • 1904 Death of her father—Second mental breakdown • Virginia and her sisters and brothers move to Bloomsbury

The Bloomsbury Group • • • Clive Bell (1881 -1964): art critic Vanessa (Stephen) Bell (1879 -1961): painter Roger Fry (1866 -1934): art critic and painter Duncan Grant (1885 -1978): painter John Maynard Keynes (1883 -1946): economist • Desmond Mac. Carthy (1877 -1952): journalist and editor

The Bloomsbury Group • Thoby Stephen (1880 -1906): the Cambridge connection • Adrian Stephen (1883 -1948): psychoanalyst • Lytton Strachey (1880 -1932): historian • Saxon Sydney Turner (1880 -1962): civil servant • Leonard Woolf (1880 -1969): writer, publisher and civil servant

The Bloomsbury Group • Virginia (Stephen) Woolf (1882 -1941): writer and publisher • E. M. Forster (1879 -1970): novelist and publisher

The Bloomsbury group http: //www. mnstate. edu http: //www. sexualityinart. wordpress. com Clive Bell and Vanessa (Stephen) Bell

The Bloomsbury group http: //www. modern-humanities. info http: //www. tate. org. uk http: //www. icarito. cl Roger Fry (Self-Portrait); Duncan Grant; John Maynard Keynes

The Bloomsbury group http: //www. findagrave. com http: //www. mantex. co. uk http: //www. modern-humanities. info Desmond Mac. Carthy; Thoby Stephen; Adrian Stephen by Duncan Grant

The Bloomsbury group http: //www. tate. org. uk http: //www. ruh. ac. lk Lytton Strachey; Saxon Sydney Turner; Leonard Woolf by Henry Lamb

The Bloomsbury group http: //blog. syracuse. com/shelflife/2008/01/w oolf. jpg http: //www. emforster. de Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster

Sigmund Freud (1856 -1939) http: //www. culturaen movimiento. cl

1904 -1912 • 1905 Begins contributing to the Times Literary Supplement. • 1906 -1909 Deaths of his brother Thoby and his aunt Caroline E. Stephen • Starts working on her first novel The Voyage Out • 1912 Marries Leonard Woolf http: //smith. edu Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Wedding Day, 10 August 1912

Monk’s House (East Sussex) Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived here together from 1919 until her suicide in 1941; Leonard remained in the home until his death in 1969 http: //www. infobritain. co. uk/Monks_House. jpg Left, Virginia's writing lodge at the rear of the Monk's House property http: //www. virginiawoolfsociety. co. uk

Monk’s House (East Sussex) Virginia Woolf's writing lodge

1936 Serious mental breakdown 1941 Commits suicide Colour Print of Virginia Woolf taken by Gisèle Freund (1939) http: //www. npg. org. uk

Virginia Woolf’s works • • • • The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob’s Room (1922) Mrs Dalloway & The Common Reader: First Series (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) Orlando (1928) A Room of One’s Own (1929) The Waves (1931) The Common Reader: Second Series (1932) Flush (1933) The Years (1937) Three Guineas (1938) Between the Acts (1941)

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