To the Lighthouse (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Experimental Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Family or family life, Philosophy or philosophers, Tradition, Gender roles, Art or artists, Marriage, Social life, 1910’s, Islands, Creative process, World War I, Scotland or Scottish people, Parties, Victorian era or Victorianism, Lighthouses
- Locales: Hebrides, Scotland, Isle of Skye, England
At the center of this novel is Mrs. Ramsay, the beautiful, mysterious, nurturing wife and mother of an English family, headed by an autocratic, but remotely loving father, renowned in the late-Victorian world as a philosopher. The couple, modeled on Virginia Woolf’s parents, Sir Leslie and Mrs. Stephen, vacation in the Hebrides, surrounded by their children and friends, who both admire and criticize them.
The proposed action of the first part of the novel is an excursion to the nearby lighthouse, which does not take place until ten years later, after the death of Mrs. Ramsay....
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