Between the Acts (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: June, 1939
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: History, Authors or writers, Rural or country life, 1930’s, England or English people, Human behavior, Houses, mansions, or manors, Pageants
- Locales: England
Places Discussed
Pointz Hall. Ancestral home of the Olivers in southern England. As the house bears a weight of historical symbolism, it needs to be seen clearly. It is middle-sized, as English manor houses go, whitish, attractive to passersby, but oddly situated, facing north, away from the sun, and standing low in its meadow so that it suffers in winter. In that way, it is atypical, not quite fully English. Its furniture is mid-Victorian, and thus out of date—contrasting with the furnishings and modern bathrooms that the newly rich coming down from London, such as the...
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