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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

Author of Mrs Dalloway

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About the Author

Virginia Woolf was born in London, England on January 25, 1882. She was the daughter of the prominent literary critic Leslie Stephen. Her early education was obtained at home through her parents and governesses. After death of her father in 1904, her family moved to Bloomsbury, where they formed show more the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of philosophers, writers, and artists. During her lifetime, she wrote both fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels included Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Between the Acts. Her non-fiction books included The Common Reader, A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays, and The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. Having had periods of depression throughout her life and fearing a final mental breakdown from which she might not recover, Woolf drowned herself on March 28, 1941 at the age of 59. Her husband published part of her farewell letter to deny that she had taken her life because she could not face the terrible times of war. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series

Works by Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway (1925) 20,793 copies
To the Lighthouse (1927) 17,727 copies
A Room of One's Own (1929) 12,451 copies
Orlando: A Biography (1928) 10,705 copies
The Waves (1931) 5,420 copies
The Voyage Out (1915) 2,718 copies
Jacob's Room (1922) 2,360 copies
Between the Acts (1941) 2,023 copies
Night and Day (1919) 1,942 copies
The Years (1937) 1,594 copies
Three Guineas (1938) 1,473 copies
Flush: A Biography (1933) 1,417 copies
A Writer's Diary (1953) 1,278 copies
Moments of Being (1976) 1,121 copies
The Common Reader: First Series (1925) 1,074 copies
Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) (1993) 962 copies
To the Lighthouse (2005) 693 copies
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944) — Author — 644 copies
The Mrs Dalloway Reader (2003) 429 copies
Women and Writing (1979) 372 copies
Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short-Story Sequence (1973) — Author — 271 copies
On Being Ill (1926) 246 copies
Freshwater: A Comedy (1976) 199 copies
The Virginia Woolf Reader (1984) 185 copies
Roger Fry: A Biography (1940) 177 copies
Street Haunting (2005) 165 copies
The Years (2008) 159 copies
Melymbrosia: A Novel (1982) 154 copies
The Moment and Other Essays (1947) 147 copies
The Essays of Virginia Woolf : Volume 1, 1904-1912 (1986) — Author — 147 copies
Granite and Rainbow : Essays (1958) 132 copies
Nurse Lugton's Curtain (1991) 121 copies
Selected Essays (2008) 115 copies
Selected Short Stories (1993) 110 copies
Kew Gardens [short story] (1919) 106 copies
Travels with Virginia Woolf (1905) 88 copies
The Widow and the Parrot (1988) 77 copies
A Room of One's Own / The Voyage Out (1848) — Author — 74 copies
How Should One Read a Book? (1922) 68 copies
Liberty: Vintage Minis (2017) 61 copies
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 1 (2017) — Contributor — 59 copies
Selected Diaries (2008) 55 copies
The Collected Essays (1967) 40 copies
Essays on the Self (2017) 39 copies
Complete Diary : 1915-1941 (1977) 37 copies
A Woman's Essays (1992) 36 copies
Memoirs of a Novelist (2006) 31 copies
Collected Essays, Volume 1 (1966) 30 copies
Collected Essays, Volume 4 (1967) 27 copies
Collected Essays, Volume 2 (1966) 26 copies
Collected Essays, Volume 3 (1967) 24 copies
Two Stories (2017) 22 copies
Novels and Short Stories (1993) 21 copies
Oh, to Be a Painter! (2021) 21 copies
I capolavori (1994) 20 copies
Reviewing (1939) 18 copies
Am I a Snob? [essay] (2012) 16 copies
The False Novel (2000) 15 copies
Cuentos completos (1900) 14 copies
The Art of the Novel (1963) 13 copies
Women (2011) 11 copies
On Fiction (2011) 10 copies
The New Dress [short story] (1996) 10 copies
The Death of the Moth (1942) 9 copies
Virginia Woolf by Herself (2004) 9 copies
The Legacy [short story] (2017) 8 copies
Beau Brummell (1977) 8 copies
Cartas de Amor (2019) 7 copies
The Narrow Bridge of Art (1986) 7 copies
Romans, essais (2014) 6 copies
Lectures intimes (2013) 6 copies
Essays (1997) 5 copies
Essais choisis (2015) 5 copies
Eseje wybrane (2015) 5 copies
Tutti i racconti (1993) 5 copies
Time Passes (2010) 5 copies
Virginia Woolf (2023) 5 copies
Journal (1982) 4 copies
OEuvre romanesque. Tome 2 (1974) 4 copies
Sobre la escritura (2015) 4 copies
Byrackan (2019) 4 copies
MATAR AL ANGEL DEL HOGAR (1929) 4 copies
Four Hidden Letters (2007) 4 copies
Diaris (Catalan Edition) (2022) 3 copies
A Society [short story] (1921) 3 copies
Viagens (2018) 3 copies
48 Ensaios 3 copies
Dos relats: 1 (Menuts) (2021) 3 copies
Personligt (2016) 3 copies
Three Guineas (Annotated) (1689) 3 copies
The Novels, Volume 1 (2012) 3 copies
The Joke of the Battleship, The Society (1999) — Author — 3 copies
22 Hyde Park Gate [essay] (2015) 3 copies
Sul cinema (2012) 3 copies
ESCRITORAS (EL BARQUERO) (2017) 3 copies
Böcker (2014) 3 copies
Fire britiske klassikere (2018) 3 copies
Diário 2 copies
Montaigne, Âme Libre (2019) 2 copies
Mr Bennett and Mrs. Brown (2020) 2 copies
Jacob's Room Annotated (2021) 2 copies
Scritti Sull'Arte (2023) 2 copies
Leggere a caso (2016) 2 copies
Journal. Tome 1 (1981) 2 copies
Siedem szkiców (2009) 2 copies
Essais 1 copy
EL FARO 1 copy
Cuadros y retratos (2022) 1 copy
Opere (1998) 1 copy
On the Mediterranean (1995) 1 copy
Δοκίμια (1999) 1 copy
Mrs. Dalloway - Manuscrito — Author — 1 copy
Una societat (2023) 1 copy
Jacob's Room 1 copy
Fantasmagorias (2016) 1 copy
Virginia Woolf - Caixa (2018) 1 copy
Essays (1986) 1 copy
Lettres (1993) 1 copy
Pisma Viti (2008) 1 copy
Two Stories 1 copy
Ricordi (1996) 1 copy
Författarlivet (2018) 1 copy
I racconti 1 copy

Associated Works

Pride and Prejudice (1813) — some editions — 81,207 copies
Wuthering Heights (1847) — Afterword, some editions — 52,342 copies
Sense and Sensibility (1811) — some editions — 38,387 copies
Persuasion (1817) — some editions — 28,882 copies
Robinson Crusoe (1994) — Introduction, some editions — 23,370 copies
Middlemarch (1871) — Préface, some editions — 17,832 copies
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) — Afterword, some editions — 2,841 copies
Paradise Lost [Norton Critical Edition] (1667) — Contributor, some editions — 2,215 copies
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) — Introduction, some editions — 1,741 copies
The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) (2000) — Contributor — 1,544 copies
The Garden Party (1922) — Foreword, some editions — 1,491 copies
The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) — Contributor — 1,385 copies
50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Contributor — 1,266 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 929 copies
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1967) — Contributor — 431 copies
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993) — Contributor — 411 copies
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Contributor — 367 copies
Literature: The Human Experience (2006) — Contributor — 341 copies
The Essential Feminist Reader (2007) — Contributor — 321 copies
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (1993) — Contributor — 299 copies
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000) — Contributor — 298 copies
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Contributor — 295 copies
The World's Greatest Short Stories (2006) — Contributor — 274 copies
Criticism: Major Statements (1964) — Contributor — 223 copies
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998) — Contributor — 198 copies
Love Letters (1996) — Contributor — 183 copies
Eight Modern Essayists (1980) — some editions — 178 copies
Aurora Leigh [Norton Critical Edition] (1996) — Contributor — 174 copies
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (1990) — Contributor — 168 copies
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Contributor — 149 copies
Stories of the Supernatural (1891) — Introduction, some editions — 144 copies
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Contributor — 142 copies
Read With Me (1965) — Contributor — 129 copies
Best Dog Stories (1990) — Contributor — 120 copies
The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1972) — Contributor, some editions — 119 copies
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contributor — 119 copies
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Contributor — 113 copies
Orlando [1992 film] (1992) — Original novel — 86 copies
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Contributor — 84 copies
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Contributor, some editions — 78 copies
Traveller's Library (1933) — Contributor — 71 copies
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990) — Contributor — 64 copies
Modern English Short Stories: Second Series (1911) — Contributor — 62 copies
Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women (1926) — Introduction — 57 copies
Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City (2020) — Contributor — 54 copies
The Virago Book of Christmas (2002) — Contributor — 52 copies
Strangeness (1977) — Contributor — 52 copies
Masters of the Modern Short Story (1945) — Contributor — 47 copies
An Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (1989) — Contributor — 45 copies
Sophocles: A Collection of Critical Essays (1966) — Contributor — 41 copies
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories (1996) — Contributor — 36 copies
Writing Politics: An Anthology (2020) — Contributor — 36 copies
Medusa's Daughters (2020) — Contributor — 35 copies
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contributor — 34 copies
Stories To Get You Through The Night (2010) — Contributor — 33 copies
Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1982) — Contributor — 29 copies
Mrs Dalloway [1997 film] (1997) — Original novel — 29 copies
A Book of Essays (1963) — Contributor — 26 copies
Sail Away: Stories of Escaping to Sea (2001) — Contributor — 25 copies
One World of Literature (1992) — Contributor — 24 copies
Women on Nature (2021) — Contributor — 23 copies
Classic Essays in English (1961) — Contributor — 22 copies
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contributor — 22 copies
Journal of a Somerset Rector, 1803-1834 (1971) — Contributor, some editions — 19 copies
Masters of British Literature, Volume B (2007) — Contributor — 17 copies
Great Classic Stories II: Eighteen Unabridged Classics (2010) — Contributor — 16 copies
31 Stories (1960) — Contributor — 12 copies
Witches' Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women (1984) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Analog Sea Review: Number Three (2020) — Contributor — 10 copies
England forteller : britiske og irske noveller (1970) — Contributor — 10 copies
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 2 (2006) — Contributor — 9 copies
Erzähler des S. Fischer Verlages 1886-1978 (2018) — Author — 9 copies
Classic Dog Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) (2020) — Contributor — 9 copies
The London Omnibus (1932) — Contributor — 8 copies
British and American Essays, 1905-1956 (1959) — Contributor — 7 copies
The New Windmill Book of Stories from Different Genres (1998) — Contributor — 7 copies
Favourite Sea Stories from Seaside Al (1996) — Contributor — 7 copies
Classic Women's Literature (2001) — Contributor — 5 copies
Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works (2014) — Narrator — 4 copies
Pages de journal (1929-1932) (1934) — Binder, some editions — 4 copies
Modern Short Stories — Contributor — 2 copies
London Unplugged (2021) — original short story, segment "Kew Gardens" — 2 copies
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contributor — 2 copies
Neue Rundschau 1/80 — Author — 1 copy
Life and Letters Volume III No. 16. September 1929 (1928) — Contributor — 1 copy
50 seltsame Geschichten — Contributor — 1 copy
Virginia's Sisters: An anthology of women's writing (2023) — Contributor — 1 copy
Royal Ballet : Woolf Works : 2022/23 [programme] (2023) — Contributor — 1 copy
Country Living Magazine Christmas Stories (1995) — Contributor — 1 copy
The London mercury — Contributor — 1 copy
The Dial, Vol LXXVII No 6, December 1924 — Contributor, some editions — 1 copy
早稲田文学増刊 女性号 (2017) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Folio Archives 350: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 1988 in Folio Society Devotees (November 2023)
Group Read - A Room of One's Own in Club Read 2023 (May 2023)
A Room of One's Own (2017) in Folio Society Devotees (September 2021)
Virginia Woolf/Mrs. Dalloway in Someone explain it to me... (September 2021)
Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room in Author Theme Reads (June 2019)
Group Read, February 2016: The Voyage Out in 1001 Books to read before you die (February 2016)
***April Group Read: Orlando by Virginia Woolf in 2015 Category Challenge (April 2015)
February 2015: Virginia Woolf in Monthly Author Reads (March 2015)
Group Read, December 2014: Orlando in 1001 Books to read before you die (December 2014)
I've never read *******; where should I start? in Virago Modern Classics (January 2014)
May 2012: Virginia Woolf in Monthly Author Reads (August 2012)
Woolf: The Voyage Out in Author Theme Reads (February 2009)
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway in Author Theme Reads (February 2009)

Reviews

Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Love letters is overrated and underwhelming. It contains the complete correspondance between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West over a period of 21 years, from 1922 till 1941. Many of the letters are either short of very short, and many of the letters are about very little. The letters add very little to the overall understanding or image of either of the two authors. Both women were married. Although their letters are passionate and fierce, it is not clear whether one could truly call them love letters.

Still, the letters do form a fine complement to our knowledge of both writers, but probably only if you already know a lot about them. The letters show but tell us very little about Vita travels and about Sissinghurst, the manor she moved to after losing her ancestral home. We catch some glimpses of Virginia. However, for these minor intresting moments we have to read through page-upon-page of boring and short missives.
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edwinbcn | 3 other reviews | Jun 2, 2024 |
I really must not be as cultured as I pretend to be because I just didn’t resonate with this at all.
 
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mmodine | 331 other reviews | May 31, 2024 |
Here's what I wrote about this read in 2013: "Second Woolf read. The Partiger family over time, as the season pass and milestone events happen in English history. Good to have read a bit more of her work, learn a bit more about English culture of her day, but can't really say it's brilliant, excting, humorous, or overly instructive." Quotations in the comments section are my exact kindle highlights.
 
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MGADMJK | 24 other reviews | May 22, 2024 |
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
 
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Leonard Woolf Editor, Foreword
Francine Prose Introduction, Editor
E. M. Forster Contributor
Eleanor Mcnees Annotation and Introduction
Jan Morris Editor
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Honore de Balzac Contributor
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Guy de Maupassant Contributor
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Henry Fielding Contributor
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Theodore Dreiser Contributor
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Alexandre Dumas Contributor
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Elaine Showalter Introduction, Contributor
Mary Gordon Foreword, Contributor
Angelica Garnett Introduction, Contributor
Michael Cunningham Introduction, Contributor
Maria Bosse-Sporleder Übersetzer, Translator
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Alice Hoffman Introduction
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