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Thema: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf
(* 25. Januar 1882; ? 28. März 1941) war eine britische Schriftstellerin und Verlegerin.
Mit der Schriftstellerin Vita Sackville-West hatte Virginia Woolf eine dreijährige Liebesbeziehung, die als Freundschaft bis zu Virginias Tod weiterbestand. Mit ihrem Ehemann Leonard verlegte sie zahlreiche bedeutende Autorinnen und Autoren, der Bloomsbury-Kreis um Verlag und Freundinnen- und Freundeskreis der Woolfs wurde ein Angelpunkt englischer Literatur.

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Virginia Woolf: Orlando

UK 2020, 225 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK

A Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock »biography« of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia ... Weiterlesen

Emily Midorikawa / Emma Claire Sweeney: A Secret Sisterhood

The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf. UK 2018, 336 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Quarto

»A Secret Sisterhood« uncovers the hidden literary friendships of the world's most respected female authors. Drawing on letters and diaries, some of which have never been published before, this book will reveal Jane Austen's bond with a family servant, the amateur playwright Anne Sharp, how Charlotte Brontë was inspired by the daring feminist Mary Taylor, the transatlantic relationship between George ... Weiterlesen

Virginia Woolf: The Years

UK 1937, 402 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage

»The Years« follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Written in 1937, this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her ... Weiterlesen

Frances Partridge: Love in Bloomsbury

UK/USA 2014, 240 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
I.B. Tauris

The Bloomsbury Group was as well known for its love affairs as for the work that was produced by its members. Of all the romantic entanglements, the love quadrangle between Frances Partridge, her husband Ralph Partridge, his first wife, Dora, and Lytton Strachey was one of the most notorious (Frances loved Ralph, who loved Dora, who loved Lytton, who loved ... Weiterlesen

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

UK 2009, 285 pp., pb., € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK

»Fear no more the heat of the sun.« Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cunningham: The Hours

UK 2006, 230 pp., pb,, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
HarperPerennial

In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of »Mrs Dalloway.« And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New ... Weiterlesen

Julia Briggs: Virginia Woolf

UK 2006, 528 pp., brochure, € 17.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Virginia Woolf is the greatest of all British women writers and one of the most influential figures in 20th-century writing. She was a novelist utterly immersed in books, wholly original, passionate, vivid and with a steely dedication to her art. Yet given that what we value about Woolf's life is her great novels, most writing about her still tends to ... Weiterlesen

Virginia Woolf: Night and Day

UK 2005, 547 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf's own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine's case, her poet grandfather, and in Woolf's, her father Leslie Stephen, writer, philosopher, and editor. Both desire to break away from the demands of the previous generation without disowning it altogether. Katherine must decide whether or ... Weiterlesen

Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Diary

USA 1954, 355 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harvest

An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, »A Writer's Diary« was collected by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of 27 years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, and those that are clearly writing exercises, accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work, ... Weiterlesen