Virginia Woolf began writing as a young girl and published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. She experimented with compelling narrative perspectives, dream-states, and free association prose. Her mesmerizing novel Mrs. Dalloway interweaves interior monologues and raises issues of feminism, mental illness, and homosexuality in post-World War I England. Her novel To the Lighthouse explores the passage of time, the lives of people during war, and how women are forced to emotionally support men. Her last work, Between the Acts, sums up Woolf's preoccupations with the transformation of life through art, sexual ambivalence, and meditation on time and life.
2. The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf began
writing as a young girl
and published her
first novel, The
Voyage Out, in 1915.
3. She used the book to
experiment with several
literary tools, including
compelling and unusual
narrative perspectives,
dream-states and free
association prose.
4. Mrs. Dalloway
The mesmerizing story
interweaves interior
monologues and raises
issues of feminism, mental
illness and homosexuality
in post-World War I
England.
5. To the Lighthouse
The main theme is the struggle
in the creative process. The
novel is also a meditation upon
the lives of a nation's
inhabitants in the midst of war,
and of the people left behind.
It also explores the passage of
time, and how women are
forced by society to allow men
to take emotional strength
from them.
6. Flush: A Biography
The book is written from the
dog's point of view. Woolf
was inspired to write this
book from the success of the
Rudolf Besier play The
Barretts of Wimpole Street.
In the play, Flush is on stage
for much of the action.
7. Between the Acts
Her last work sums up and
magnifies Woolf's chief
preoccupations: the
transformation of life through
art, sexual ambivalence, and
meditation on the themes of
flux of time and life, presented
simultaneously as corrosion
and rejuvenation.
