Bloomsbury Group

(1882 - 1941) was an English writer, one of the foremost Modernists, and influential member of the Bloomsbury intellectual group. My topic will cover the influence of “war” as both historical events and intellectual concept on her life, particularly concentrating on her wartime writings: Three Guineas, Between the Acts and the Voyage Out. Alternatively, I will look at the influences of the Bloomsbury Group’s philosophy on Virginia Woolf as a writer. Particularly, I will look at her views on the topics

years of 1910-1913, Woolf sent on a ‘rest cure’ in Twickenham to a private nursing home for women with nervous conditions (Woolf). Before the final downfall of Virginia she was on her way to becoming a well-known author. She was apart of the Bloomsbury group. A quote from her famous book Mrs. Dalloway, “ It achieves it is the vision of reality through the reception by Mrs. Dalloway’s mind of what Virginia Woolf called those myriad impressions- trivial fantastic, evanescent or engraved with the sharpness

Woolf’s father, Virginia and her siblings moved away from their home in Hyde Park Gate to a new home located in Gordon square inside the Bloomsbury district. In this new home the brothers launched parties for their friends, which was a great excuse to discus many literary topics for Virginia Woolf. These parties commenced the prestigious group called the Bloomsbury Group. The members included great authors and editors such as: E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Leonard Woolf, Roger Fry, Vanessa

The group was mainly consisting of writers, painters, and intellectuals. It all started when Virginia and her siblings moved to the Bloomsbury area in London in her early twenties. As stated by Brooks, Thoby Stephen’s colleagues like Leonard Woolf and Clive Bell were invited to parties to discuss controversial topics. Eventually, the group expanded and gathered Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, and Duncan Grant. Additionally,

Modernism, a constantly debated term, is a philosophical movement that emerged during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, following World War I. Painters, writers, and musicians did not however perceive it just as a period in time, rather as a “commitment to experimentation in techniques, freedom in ideas, originality in perceptions, and self-examination in emotions” (Baughman, Bondi, Layman…etc,1) Writers, for example, like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway broke away from the

In her essay ‘Modern Fiction’ Virginia Woolf provides an abstract analogy, in order to explain human existence, ‘Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo’. Despite Woolf's intentions being fixed in addressing the centric qualities of life, her comment unintentionally summons a suitable definition for the modernist movement. Modernism is comprehensive- it is a halo. A halo, comprised of many different sub-genres such as, Expressionism, Dadaism, and Vorticism

Christined Adeline Virginia Stephen and born to Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Duckworth Stephen on the 25th day of January, 1882, Virginia was the third child of the couple after Vanessa (1879) and Julian (1880), and before Adrian (1883). As the couple was into their second nuptial relationship, they both had children from their previous marriage— George, Gerald and Stella from Julia's; Laura from Leslie's. They all lived together at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington. Leslie was an academician

Consumed: Reflections of Virginia Woolf within The Waves Virginia Woolf committed suicide just ten years after the publication of her novel The Waves. Throughout her life she struggled with bipolar disorder, anxiety, self-imposed isolation, misdiagnosis of her illnesses, repressed or closeted homosexuality in a time when being gay was illegal, and the deaths of many who she cared deeply for. Louise DeSalvo wrote a book on the life of Virginia Woolf and described the pattern that much of her childhood

the ethical preaching’s of the texts. The “purpose” (Mitchell, 17) not restricted to moral lessons, in fact purpose is not required at all. When Virginia Woolf first began Flush, she intended the biography merely for the amusement of one of the Bloomsbury group (Smith, 356). While the text clearly grew in meaning during its creation, its inception was purposeless, especially in with regards to morality. Morality was always going to be secondary in Flush as the book is all about innovation. Like most

Michael Cunningham’s “The Hours” tells the story of three women, each from different eras of society, yet connected through the internal conflicts which they face. Laura Brown, one of the novel’s three protagonists, lives the white middle-class American dream. However, throughout the novel her mental health begins to deteriorate due to the oppressive lifestyle which she feels society has forced upon her. The Virginia Woolf portrayed by Cunningham, was in fact historically accurate to the original