Virginia and Vanessa had battles of their own to contend with; both, as children, were sexually abused by their half-brothers, George and Gerald Duckworth. As an adult Virginia Woolf wrote extensively about this incestuous abuse in her diaries and letters, although there is little I can find ...
byVirginia Woolf|Novel12752 votes In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, she brilliantly captures a brief moment in time and breathes life into the characters that inhabit it. Her innovative stream of consciousness writing style allows readers to experience intimate moments with each character as ...
6.A Room of One’s Ownby Virginia Woolf—My articleWoolf on writing, life, and womenwas inspired by A Room of One’s Own. In addition to being a seminal work on feminism, it is an infinite pool of wisdom on making sense of our life andwritingabout it. In the essay, Virginia argue...
You may search the novels of Virginia Woolf in vain for so much as a single horse.. . . --Annie Dillard in “Living by Fiction” Annie Dillard sits beside a trash can under a huge fig tree, encircled by a hundred or more writers, accomplished and aspiring. One by one, her acolytes...
“determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk.” Virginia Woolf called it “street haunting”; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany's; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style ...
Longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize,Trust by Hernan Diazwas was one of the nominated titles which intrigued me the most. It consists of four manuscripts related to New York financier Andrew Bevel and his wife Mildred. The first is a novella called ‘Bonds’ written by Mildred’s friend...
Lots of famous authors published revealing journals (Virginia Woolf, Vladamir Nabakov), but John Cheever’s is one of the best. In this book, he discusses his troublesome marriage, his alcoholism, and his relationships. He describes at length the craft of writing and his works. ...
If you have seen the beautiful 1990s cinema classic Orlando, you will know that the ambisextrous heroine (changes to hero as centuries progress) was based on Vita herself in the novel written by her beloved Virginia Woolf. The first edition of this book does not seem to have been incl...
In the 1960s, author Flannery O’Connor said,“We live now in an age which doubts both fact and value, which is swept this way and that by momentary convictions. Written a half-century ago, her words speak to us today. “Instead of reflecting a balance from the world around him, the...
We were in Portland, too. At the Woodstock Public Library I found a life-sized etching of a poem written byKim Stafford.(Earlier this year, I took one of Kim’s online classes,Daily Writing in the Spirit of William Stafford.)You have the power to open centuries that trees hold/silent ...