The principal theme of this ambitious book is Time, threading together three generations of an upper-class English family, the Pargiters. The characters come and go, meet, talk, think, dream, grow older, in a continuous ritual of life that eludes meaning.
On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a party she is giving that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth. Elsewhere in London Septimus Smith is being driven mad by shell shock.
A collection of five of the author's stories, which explore the role of women in society. From Victorian England to fifteenth-century Norfolk, and pre-War London to Mount Pentelicus, this work offers a series of impressions of women finding their place in the world around them.
Provides raw material for Virginia Woolf's novels. It shows, in its vivid, ebullient, attentive flow of comment, early symptoms of one of the world's great diary-writers.
Taking family, friends and servants as her subjects, Virginia Woolf presents a series of impressions of the people around her. And as she describes their lives - including a piece on her nephew Julian Bell, and sketches on Lady Ottoline Morrell and Lady Strachey - she also reveals about her attitudes - to her writing, and to war and education.
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.
Tracing the lives of six friends froom childood to old age, The Waves was written when Virginia Woolf was at the height of her experimental literary powers, and she allows each character to tell their own story, through powerful, poetic monologues.
First published in 1933, this work talks about Flush, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel. It provides us with the adventures of Flush, along with glimpses of the life of his owner and her days at Wimpole Street as an invalid, her courtship by Robert Browning, their elopement and life together in Italy.