The Diary of Virginia Woolf (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Type of Work: Diary
- Time of Work: 1915-1941
- Setting: England, France, and Scotland
- Principal Characters: Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Julian Bell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, John Lehmann, Vita Sackville-West, Lytton Strachey
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: Culture, Memory, Sex or sexuality, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Social life, Writing, Mental illness, Novelists, Feminism, Women’s issues, Criticism, Creative process, Biography
- Locales: London, England, Sussex, England
Form and Content
On January 3, 1897, shortly before her fifteenth birthday, Virginia Stephen began to keep a diary, which she maintained faithfully for much of the year. After the death of her half sister, Stella, in July, however, entries became sparser, and on September 14 she wrote, “We will follow the year to its end & then fling diaries and diarising into the corner—to dust & mire & moths & all creeping crawling eating destroying creatures.” Despite this resolution, she subsequently made a number of attempts at “diarising,” one of these resulting...
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