The Essays of Virginia Woolf (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Essays
- Time of Work: 1912-1918
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Authors or writers, Marriage, Books, Mental illness, Feminism, Women’s issues, World War I, Intellect, Literary criticism
The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume II: 1912-1918 covers the years from 1912, when Virginia Stephen married Leonard Woolf, to 1918, when she was thirty-six. For much of the first half of this period, Woolf suffered from mental illness and wrote almost nothing. The first four essays date from 1912 and 1913; then, after two and a half years of enforced inactivity, she began to do literary reviews early in 1916. In addition to increasingly frequent work of this sort, she and her husband founded the Hogarth Press in their home in 1917. Among their early publications, her short...
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