MOMENTS OF BEING is a collection containing Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing. The author was well born, and in "Reminiscenses," the first of five pieces, she focuses on the death of her mother, "the greatest disaster that could happen," and its effect on her father, the demanding Victorian patriarch. "A …
On Being Ill is an essay by Virginia Woolf that appeared in T. S. Eliot's The Criterion in January, 1926; The essay was later reprinted, with revisions, in Forum in April 1926, under the title Illness: An Unexploited Mine. The essay seeks to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, …
Paní Dallowayová je impresionistický román britské autorky Virginie Woolfové, na němž pracovala v letech 1923-1925. Je považován za její vrcholné a rovněž nejznámější dílo, které inspirovalo také amerického spisovatele Michaela Cunninghama k napsání světoznámého románu Hodiny, podle kterého byl natočen i stejnojmenný …
Paní Dallowayová je impresionistický román britské autorky Virginie Woolfové, na němž pracovala v letech 1923-1925. Je považován za její vrcholné a rovněž nejznámější dílo, které inspirovalo také amerického spisovatele Michaela Cunninghama k napsání světoznámého románu Hodiny, podle kterého byl natočen i stejnojmenný …
Virginia Woolf often wrote as many as six letters a day. This collection is illustrated with contemporary photographs and paintings - many of them by members of the Bloomsbury Group, such as Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant - and aims to evoke the literary and artistic life of the day. The …