woolf, virginia

Examines the lives of four authors--Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and E. M. Foster--in 1922. A pivotal year in literature, 1922 also marked moments within these artists' lives when they were struggling, but ultimately found their voice once again.

"Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend, but the world's most celebrated female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their investigations into a wealth of surprising collaborations, such as the friendships between George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe or Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. Drawing on letters and diaries, some of which have never been published before, A Secret Sisterhood resurrects these stories of female friendships and literary collaborations."--OCLC.

Laurel Ulrich examines the meaning behind the slogan she inadvertently created, "Well-behaved women seldom make history," exploring what it means to make history and how women have achieved power and influence throughout history.

Compares how Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf depict artistic characters within their novels, discussing Woolf's "The Voyage Out," "Mrs. Dalloway," and "To the Lighthouse," and Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," "Sula," and "Beloved.".

Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man raised in Edwardian England, discovers as an adult that his life is lacking, but his search for fulfillment is sidetracked by the outbreak of World War I. Includes extracts from Woolf's diaries and letters, comments on the novel, a selection of short stories by Woolf, critical essays, and other reference material.

Explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do. Meditates on the writer-temperament and explores the need for a woman to have a room of her own and five hundred pounds a year being symbols of the power to think for oneself and contemplate.

Discusses the works of Virginia Woolf, a writer and feminist who developed innovative narrative techniques.

The power of the written word of Virginia Woolf touches women from three eras, as they all struggle with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and dispair.