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The Death Of The Moth
This is a bibliography of works by the English novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf. Novels *''The Voyage Out'' (1915) *'' Night and Day'' (1919) *''Jacob's Room'' (1922) *'' Mrs Dalloway'' (1925) *'' To the Lighthouse'' (1927) *'' Orlando: A Biography'' (1928) *''The Waves'' (1931) *''The Years'' (1937) *''Between the Acts'' (1941) Short fiction Short stories *"Phyllis and Rosamond" *"The Mysterious Case of Miss V." *"The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn" *"A Dialogue upon Mount Pentelicus" *"Memoirs of a Novelist" *"The Mark on the Wall" (1917) *"Kew Gardens" (1919) *"The Evening Party" *"Solid Objects" (1920) *"Sympathy" (1921) *"An Unwritten Novel" (1920) *"A Haunted House" (1921) *"A Society" (1921) *"Monday or Tuesday" (1921) *" The String Quartet" (1921) *"Blue & Green" (1921) *"A Woman's College from Outside" (1926) *"In the Orchard" (1923) *"Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" (1923) *"Nurse Lugton's Curtain" *"The Widow and the Parrot: A True Story" (1985) *" The New Dress" (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight which included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where she studied classics and history and came into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement. Encouraged by her father, Woolf began writing professionally in 1900. After her father's death in 1904, the Stephen family moved from Kensington to the more bohemian Bloomsbury, where, in conjunction with the brothers' intellectual friends, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health. In the 1840s, Elizabeth was introduced to literary society through her distant cousin and patron John Kenyon. Her first adult collection of poems was published in 1838, and she wrote prolifically between 1841 and 1844, producing poetry, translation, and prose. She campaigned for the abolition of slavery, and her w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Gissing
The Gissing family of Great Britain included several noted writers, Olympic competitors, and teachers. George Gissing Algernon Gissing Algernon Fred Gissing (25 November 1860 (Wakefield, West Yorkshire) – 5 February 1937) was an English novelist and biographer. He was the younger brother of George Gissing. He wrote 25 novels, two collections of short stories and several pieces of travel writing. On 8 September 1887, Gissing married Catherine née Baseley (1859–1937), later moving with her to Broadway, Worcestershire. Together they had five children. He died from heart disease.Pierre CoustillasGissing, Algernon Fred (1860–1937) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (online); Oxford University Press; (2004); accessed 16 June 2012. Biography Algernon's parents were Thomas Waller Gissing (1829-1870) and Margaret Gissing (1832-1913), and he had two older brothers named William and George. His initial education was at Back Lane School in Wakefield, but from 1870 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gissing
George Robert Gissing (; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. His best-known works have reappeared in modern editions. They include ''The Nether World'' (1889), ''New Grub Street'' (1891) and '' The Odd Women'' (1893). Biography Early life Gissing was born on 22 November 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, the eldest of five children of Thomas Waller Gissing, who ran a chemist's shop, and Margaret (née Bedford). His siblings were: William, who died aged twenty; Algernon, who became a writer; Margaret; and Ellen.Pierre Coustillas,Gissing, George Robert (1857–1903) (), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', online), Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 17 June 2012. His childhood home in Thompson's Yard, Wakefield, is maintained by The Gissing Trust. Gissing was educated at Back Lane School in Wakefield, where he was a diligent and enthusiastic student. His serious interest in books began at the age o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moments Of Being
''Moments of Being'' is a collection of posthumously-published autobiographical essays by Virginia Woolf. The collection was first found in the papers of her husband, used by Quentin Bell in his biography of Virginia Woolf, published in 1972. In 1976, the essays were edited for publication by Jeanne Schulkind. The second edition was published in 1985. The original texts are now housed at Sussex University and in the British Library in London. Title The title for the collection was chosen by its original editor, Jeanne Schulkind, based on a passage from "A Sketch of the Past". As described by Woolf, 'moments of being' are moments in which an individual experiences a sense of reality, in contrast to the states of 'non-being' that dominate most of an individual's conscious life, in which they are separated from reality by a protective covering. Moments of being could be a result of instances of shock, discovery, or revelation. Contents ''Moments of Being'' consists of five auto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include ''Crime and Punishment'' (1866), ''The Idiot'' (1869), ''Demons'' (1872), and ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1880). His 1864 novella, ''Notes from Underground'', is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an Americans, American writer, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other writers. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian era, Edwardian settings. Early life Edward St. John Gorey was born in Chicago. His parents, Helen Dunham (née Garvey) and Edward Leo Gorey, divorced in 1936 when he was 11. His father remarried in 1952 when he was 27. His stepmother was Corinna Mura (1910–1965), a cabaret singer who had a small role in ''Casablanca (film), Casablanca'' as the woman playing the guitar while singing "La Marseillaise" at Rick's Café Américain. His father was briefly a journalist. Gorey's maternal great-grandmother, Helen St. John Garvey, was a nineteenth-century greeting card illustrator, from whom he claimed to hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Comedy
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granite And Rainbow
''Granite and Rainbow'' is a posthumous collection of twenty-five essays on the art of fiction and the art of biography by Virginia Woolf. It was first published by Harcourt Brace in 1958. It includes an editorial note by Leonard Woolf. It is not to be confused with ''Granite and Rainbow: The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf'' by Mitchell Leaska. References {{reflist, colwidth=30em External links Granite and Rainbowat Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, ... Works by Virginia Woolf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The London Scene (Virginia Woolf)
''The London Scene'' is the name given to a series of six essays that Virginia Woolf wrote for '' Good Housekeeping'' magazine in 1931 and 1932. The title was not chosen by Woolf but comes from the 1975 republication of five of the essays. Originally the essays were referred to as 'Six Articles on London Life'. Essays The Docks of London This was the first of the essays published in the series that Woolf wrote for ''Good Housekeeping'' and was published in the December 1931 issue of the magazine (volume 20, issue 4). In the essay, Woolf describes visiting the Port of London, at the time the World's largest port. The essay imagines a trip along the River Thames and describes the sites of industry and trade that would be seen along the way, as well as the environmental consequences. The essay was based on Woolf's trip to the port earlier in 1931, where she accompanied the Persian ambassador. The Oxford Street Tide This second essay was published in the January 1932 issue of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
