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The diary of Virginia Woolf
It is a book about mortality, knowing that death is coming and making the most of what is now and here. -
The mark on the wall
The Mark on the Wall is the first published story by Virginia Woolf. -
Kew Gardens
The story describes four pairs of people-a married couple, an elderly man with a young man, two elderly women, and a young couple-as they pass a flower bed in a botanical garden in London. -
The haunted house
Is a very short piece which oneirically depicts two couples sharing the same centenary house: the live one trying to sleep while listening to the eerie other who keeps wandering from room to room to seek “their hidden joy” -
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
In this text, Woolf argues that literary conventions should change as society does and proposes that literary Modernism is a means to represent the changing condition of individuals and society in the early 20th century. -
Mrs. Dalloway
It examines one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class Londoner married to a member of Parliament. -
Al Faro
The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in 1910. -
A Room of One's Own
Is based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at two colleges for women at Cambridge -
Orlando
It follows the life of Orlando, born a man in Elizabethan England, who experiences a mysterious sex change at the age of 30 and stays alive for 300 years. -
The Lady in the Looking Glass
A short story by Virginia Woolf published in Harper's in December 1929, describes the images reflected in a mirror situated in a woman's dressing room, providing a glimpse of the furnishings of her life, but, pointedly, not allowing us a glimpse into the more private