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Virginia Woolf

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

WHO IS THIS

VIRGINIA WOOLF ???

SIR LESLIE STEPHEN
1. Daddy of Virginia
2.Notable historian , author critic& mountaineer
3.Founding editor of Dictionary of National Biography
4.Previously married with Harriet Marian Thackeray (Minny)
- they have a daughter name Laura
- she's mentally disabled & institutionalised.

JULIA STEPHEN
1. Mum of Virginia, nothing special ,but beautiful
2. Model for for Pre-Raphaelite painters
3.margaret(her aunt)-photographer
4.previously married to Herbert Duckworth
-3children- George, Stella, Gerald

VIRGINIA WOOLF

THIS IS

1.born in Adeline Virginia Stephen at 22 Hyde Park Gate in London
2.live in 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
3.has 3 siblings (Venessa, Thoby & Adrian)
4.raised in environment with influence of Victorian Literary Society
-connection with William Thackeray
5. Honorary godfather- James Russell Lowell
6. A lot of visitors( Victorian society / high status ppl including Margaret)
7.immense library at her house ( V&V were taught Classic &Eng Lit)
8. Her brothers were formally educated , she RESENTS .
9. Thoby died of typhoid fever - 26 years old

1. FIRST nervous breakdown
-sudden death of her mother(13-year-old)
-death of half sis/Stella (15-year-old)
2. However, she's able to study Greek, Latin, Germany& History at Ladies' Department of King's College London
- gets to know the early reformers of women's higher education
- eg: Clara Pater, George Warr, Lilian Faithful
3. Vanessa(Virginia's sister) also studies there

1.SECOND mental collapse
- when she was 22-year-old
- death of her father
- also influence by Sexual Abuse by her half brothers (George & Gerald -mum's )
- it was most alarming collapse that she was briefly institutionalised.

1.After the death of father, Vanessa and Adrian bought a house at Bloomsbury
2.new friends
-Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Rupert Brooke, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Duncan Grant, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, David Garnett, and Roger Fry
- they form Bloomsbury Group
(Intellectual circle of writers & artists)
3.Vanessa married Clive Bell
4. VIRGINIA MARRIED LEONARD WOOLF
5. Both of them collaborated professionally, in 1917 , Hogarth Press published Virginia's novels

1. The ethos of the Bloomsbury group encouraged liberal approach to sexuality
2. Has an affair with Vita-Sackville West
-FEMALE
- writer & gardener
- were TWICE consummated
- /Orlando/
- friends with V until V dies

10.

FAMOUS

WHY IS SHE SO

11.

1.Essayist, novelist, publisher, critique
- especially famous for her NOVELS and FEMINIST writing
2.a leading figures of modernist literature of 20th century
3.major innovator in English
---experimented with stream of consciousness (narrative device use in literature)
4.major lyrical novelist in English
---intense lyricism and stylistic virtuosity fuse to create a world overabundant with auditory and visual impressions
5. Poetic vision

12.

Writing professionally - WORKS
1. Times Literary Supplement-weekly literary review published
2. The Voyage Out -first novel(1915)
3. Mrs Dalloway (1925)
4. To the lighthouse(1927)
5. Orlando (1928)
6. The Waves(1931)
7. Flush: A Biography (1933)
8. Between the Acts ( 1941 )

13.

MRS DALLOWAY
was a central element in the novel, and later film by Michael Cunningham entitled The Hours ,
which was the original title for Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

14.

WHAT IS THAT SHE FIGHT FOR?

DOES IT SUCCEED??

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15.

FEMINIST & EQUAL RIGHTS

OR DO YOU INCLUDE LESBIAN RIGHTS ?

16.

VIRGINIA has focused on feminist & lesbian themes in her work .
- eg: A room of One's Own (1929)**
& Three Guineas (1938)
- examine difficulties that female writers and intellectual face because men hold disproportionate legal economic power and future of women in education and society

17.

Simone de Beauvoir (born1908)
- French - female writer
-supports Virginia Woolf's provocation
-political activist and feminist
-significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory
- eg : the second sex ( 1949 )
---detailed analysis of women's oppression and foundation tract of contemporary feminism

18.

MARRIAGE TO LEONARD WOOLF

ANY SIGNIFICANCE/RELEVANCE?

19.

ARGUEMENT 1

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20.

VIRGINIA & LEONARD V GEORGE & MARTHA

CONTRAST

21.

1.In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, it is possible that Edward Albee expresses Virginia's dissatisfactory/ anger of Leonard's treatment through the character of Martha .
-Martha mistreats George A LOT
2. Virginia's mental illness might also be referenced.

22.

Proves/ support for this statement
1. Who's afraid of Leonard Woolf (by Irene Coates)
-his mistreatment towards Virginia encouraged her ill health & ultimately responsible for her death

23.

ARGUMENT 2

(MORE LIKELY)

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24.

VIRGINIA & LEONARD V HONEY & NICK

SIMILARITY

25.

Virginia probably use this to express the loving relationship with her husband and how protective & caring her husband has been over her

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26.

Proves / support for this statement
1. Leonard Woolf (by Victoria Glendinning)
- states Leonard was not only supportive of his wife but enable her to live as long as she did by providing her with the life and atmosphere she needed to live and write.
2. Virginia's own diaries
3. Virginia's last note to Leonard

27.

" Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that—everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V "

28.

Virginia's death
- put stones into her pockets
- drowned herself in River Ouse
-28 march 1941

29.

CONCLUSION

WHICH ONE DO YOU THINK IT IS ?

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Virginia Woolf

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

WHO IS THIS

SIR LESLIE STEPHEN1. Daddy of Virginia 2.Notable historian , author critic& mountaineer 3.Founding editor of Dictionary of National Biography 4.Previously married with Harriet Marian Thackeray (Minny) - they have a daughter name Laura - she's mentally disabled & institutionalised.

JULIA STEPHEN 1. Mum of Virginia, nothing special ,but beautiful2. Model for for Pre-Raphaelite painters3.margaret(her aunt)-photographer4.previously married to Herbert Duckworth-3children- George, Stella, Gerald

VIRGINIA WOOLF

1.SECOND mental collapse- when she was 22-year-old- death of her father - also influence by Sexual Abuse by her half brothers (George & Gerald -mum's )- it was most alarming collapse that she was briefly institutionalised.

1. The ethos of the Bloomsbury group encouraged liberal approach to sexuality 2. Has an affair with Vita-Sackville West -FEMALE- writer & gardener- were TWICE consummated- /Orlando/ - friends with V until V dies

FAMOUS

Writing professionally - WORKS 1. Times Literary Supplement-weekly literary review published 2. The Voyage Out -first novel(1915)3. Mrs Dalloway (1925)**4. To the lighthouse(1927)**5. Orlando (1928)**6. The Waves(1931)**7. Flush: A Biography (1933)8. Between the Acts ( 1941 )

MRS DALLOWAY was a central element in the novel, and later film by Michael Cunningham entitled The Hours , which was the original title for Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

WHAT IS THAT SHE FIGHT FOR?

FEMINIST & EQUAL RIGHTS

VIRGINIA has focused on feminist & lesbian themes in her work .- eg: A room of One's Own (1929)** & Three Guineas (1938)- examine difficulties that female writers and intellectual face because men hold disproportionate legal economic power and future of women in education and society

MARRIAGE TO LEONARD WOOLF

ARGUEMENT 1

VIRGINIA & LEONARD V GEORGE & MARTHA

1.In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, it is possible that Edward Albee expresses Virginia's dissatisfactory/ anger of Leonard's treatment through the character of Martha .-Martha mistreats George A LOT 2. Virginia's mental illness might also be referenced.

Proves/ support for this statement 1. Who's afraid of Leonard Woolf (by Irene Coates)-his mistreatment towards Virginia encouraged her ill health & ultimately responsible for her death

ARGUMENT 2

VIRGINIA & LEONARD V HONEY & NICK

Virginia probably use this to express the loving relationship with her husband and how protective & caring her husband has been over her

Virginia's death - put stones into her pockets - drowned herself in River Ouse-28 march 1941

CONCLUSION

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SIR LESLIE STEPHEN
1. Daddy of Virginia
2.Notable historian , author critic& mountaineer
3.Founding editor of Dictionary of National Biography
4.Previously married with Harriet Marian Thackeray (Minny)
- they have a daughter name Laura
- she's mentally disabled & institutionalised.

JULIA STEPHEN
1. Mum of Virginia, nothing special ,but beautiful
2. Model for for Pre-Raphaelite painters
3.margaret(her aunt)-photographer
4.previously married to Herbert Duckworth
-3children- George, Stella, Gerald

1.SECOND mental collapse
- when she was 22-year-old
- death of her father
- also influence by Sexual Abuse by her half brothers (George & Gerald -mum's )
- it was most alarming collapse that she was briefly institutionalised.

1. The ethos of the Bloomsbury group encouraged liberal approach to sexuality
2. Has an affair with Vita-Sackville West
-FEMALE
- writer & gardener
- were TWICE consummated
- /Orlando/
- friends with V until V dies

Writing professionally - WORKS
1. Times Literary Supplement-weekly literary review published
2. The Voyage Out -first novel(1915)
3. Mrs Dalloway (1925)
4. To the lighthouse(1927)
5. Orlando (1928)
6. The Waves(1931)
7. Flush: A Biography (1933)
8. Between the Acts ( 1941 )

MRS DALLOWAY
was a central element in the novel, and later film by Michael Cunningham entitled The Hours ,
which was the original title for Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

VIRGINIA has focused on feminist & lesbian themes in her work .
- eg: A room of One's Own (1929)**
& Three Guineas (1938)
- examine difficulties that female writers and intellectual face because men hold disproportionate legal economic power and future of women in education and society

1.In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, it is possible that Edward Albee expresses Virginia's dissatisfactory/ anger of Leonard's treatment through the character of Martha .
-Martha mistreats George A LOT
2. Virginia's mental illness might also be referenced.

Proves/ support for this statement
1. Who's afraid of Leonard Woolf (by Irene Coates)
-his mistreatment towards Virginia encouraged her ill health & ultimately responsible for her death

Virginia's death
- put stones into her pockets
- drowned herself in River Ouse
-28 march 1941