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Life (1882-1941)
Her father Leslie Stephenwas an eminent Victorianman of letters.
She grew up in a literary
and intellectual
atmospherewith free
access to her fathers library
Childhood experiences of deathand sexualabuseled to depression
the death of her mother
when she was 13
her stepbrothers
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Leslie Stephen with Virginia Woolf.
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Life (1882-1941)
The Second World War increased her
anxietyand fears. After rewriting drafts
of her suicide note, she put rocks into
her pockets and drownedherselfin the
River Ouse.
Suicide
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Literary career
The Bloomsbury Group In 1904
she moved to Bloomsbury and became a
member of the Bloomsbury Group. Thismeant the rejection of traditional morality
and artistic convention.
Experimentation best known as oneof the great experimental novelists during
the modernist period.
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The Bloomsbury Group
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Literary career
Evolution of her style in her main novels
The Voyage Out(1915)
Night and Day (1917)
Jacobs room (1922)
Mrs. Dal loway (1925)
To the Ligh thou se (1927)
A more completely developedstream-of-consciousnesstechnique
Narrative experimentation with thenovel
Traditionalnarratives
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Literary career
A feminist writer the themes of androgyny, women and writing
Mrs. Dal loway (1925)
Orlando(1928)
A Room of Ones Own (1929)
Describes Clarissa Dalloway and
Sally Setons relationship as youngwomen
Deals with androgyny
Shows Woolfs concern with thequestions of womens subjugation
and the relationship between women
and writing
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Woolf vs Joyce
Woolfs stream of
consciousness
Joyces stream of
consciousness
never lets her characters
thoughts flow without control,
maintains logical andgrammatical organisation
characters show their
thoughts directly through
interior monologue,sometimes in an incoherent
and syntactically
unorthodox way
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Moments of being Epiphanies
Rare moments of insight
during the characters daily
life when they can seereality behind appearances
The sudden spiritual
manifestation caused by a
trivial gesture, an externalobject the character is
led to a self-realization
about himself/herself
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Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Takes place on a single ordinary day
in June 1923.
Follows the protagonist through a
very small area of London, from the
morning to the night of the day on
which she gives a large formal party.
Clarissa Dalloways party is the
climax of the novel and unifies the
narrative by gathering all the people
she thinks about during the day.
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A London society lady of fifty-one, the
wife of a Conservative MP, Richard
Dalloway, who has conventional views
on womens rights.
Had a possessive father, refused Peter
Walsh, a man who would force her to
share everything.
Clarissa Dalloway
Vanessa Redgrave as Mrs. Dalloway in Marleen Gorriss
1997 film adaptation
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Mrs Dalloway (1925)
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Characterized by opposing feelings:
her need for freedom and
independence and her class
consciousness.
Her life appears to be an effort towards
order and peace, an attempt to
overcome her weakness and sense of
failure.
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Vanessa Redgrave as Mrs. Dalloway in Marleen
Gorriss 1997 film adaptation
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Clarissa Dalloway
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