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Scarica VIRGINIA WOOLF: LIFE, WORKS AND POETRY. e più Prove d'esame in PDF di Letteratura Inglese solo su Docsity! VIRGINIA WOOLF Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the third child of Sir Leslie Stephen, a distinguished Victorian literary critic and philosopher. Virginia was brought up in a household crowded with people and she devoted herself to intellectual efforts of all kinds. While her brothers went to university, she was educated at home, reading widely in her father’s enormous library, meeting many litterary men and learning Greek. Virginia’s youthful paradise was her parents’ big house in St Ives, Cornwall, where her family spent the summer. The sea was the central object in her works. For Virginia water represented two things:  On the one hand, it represented what is harmonious and feminine;  On the other hand; it stood for the possibility of the resolution of intolerable conflicts in death. The death of her mother in 1895 was followed by a long period of depression for Virginia and a mental breakdown. In 1904 her father’s death produced another period of deep depression. After their father’s death the Stephens moved to Bloomsbury, an area of London near the British Museum. Their house became a centre for important literary, artistic and philosophical meetings for a group of writers known as the Bloomsbury Group. The writer was a member of it, from about 1905 up to the second world war. She got married to Leonard Woolf in 1912. Virginia Woolf’s first novel was “The Voyage out” published in 1915. At this time, she committed suicide by drowning in 1941, after another severe mental breakdown. Virginia Woolf was interested in problems concerning the Role of woman in society. She was working as a volunteer in the Movement of women’s suffrage and later she wrote some of her most important works on the subject of Female emancipation; an example of the problems she faced is situated in “A room of one’s own”. The technique with which Virginia wrote her works is the “STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS”, with the third person narrator and indirect interior monologue to represent a gap between chronological and interior time.It is applied to a mental process and is concerned with subjective life, the stream of thoughts in a person’s