Where Was the Art of Biography Essay by Virginia Woolf First Published
Chronological List of Works By Virginia Woolf
Updated December 04, 2002
Created July 7, 1997
All but The Voyage Out and Night and Day are from the Hogarth Press in England. Subsequently Nighttime and Day, Woolf's U.S. publisher is Harcourt Brace. This listing includes primarily works published during Woolf's lifetime. Come across also the list of biographies and published messages and diaries.
The Voyage Out (26 March 1915, Duckworth; U.South. pub. past Doran, May 1920)
Woolf's offset novel, begun in 1908 and heavily revised after about 1912. Manuscript editions of the earlier version (1909-12) have been compiled and published by Louise DeSalvo equally Melymbrosia (1982), Woolf's working title for the book.
Ii Stories (1917)
"The Mark on the Wall" past VW and "a story" by Leonard Woolf. The volume was published by subscription only, mainly to friends and acquaintances, and was the Hogarth Press'southward commencement publication.
Kew Gardens (12 May 1919)
X pages of text by VW, with illustrations by her sis, Vanessa Bong.
Night and 24-hour interval (20 October 1919, Duckworth; U.Due south. pub. Doran, 1920)
VW considered this her "traditional" novel, in the mode of the nineteenth-century novelists she admired.
Mon or Tuesday (vii Apr 1921; U.Due south. pub. Harcourt Caryatid, Nov. 1921) - stories
Includes "Kew Gardens," "The Mark on the Wall," "An Unwritten Novel" and five previously unpublished sketches.
Jacob's Room (27 Oct 1922; U.South. pub. Harcourt Brace, 1922)
Her first truly experimental novel and the Hogarth Press's first large-scale work, Jacob'southward Room begins Woolf'south reputation as "hard" or "highbrow." Critics compare her to James Joyce and Dorothy Richardson. Jacob is based on Woolf's older brother Thoby Stephen, who died of a fever in 1906, when he was in his mid-twenties.
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1923)
A response to Arnold Bennett's criticism that she "tin't create or didn't in Jacob's Room, characters that survive" (Woolf paraphrasing Bennett, Author'due south Diary). Get-go version was published in the U.S. and then in England. A later, ameliorate-known, version was written as a lecture to the Cambridge Heretics on 18 May 1924, then published in the Criterion under the championship "Character in Fiction," and then published by Hogarth Press every bit Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Dark-brown. Critically, "the essay became a key document, not merely in the assessment of Virginia Woolf'due south work, simply in relation to twentieth-century fiction generally" (Critical Heritage 17).
The Mutual Reader (First Series, 23 Apr 1925)
The Common Reader was Woolf'south title for two series of critical essays she published (the 2nd series was published in 1932), more often than not focused on her responses to reading and literature. It includes biographical sketches of many writers and such now-famous essays equally "On Not Knowing Greek" and "How it Strikes a Contemporary."
Mrs. Dalloway (14 May 1925; simultaneously in England and U.S.; commencement time for simultaneous publication in U.Southward. and England)
A novel that takes place entirely in the space of i twenty-four hours in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, with a parallel plot almost a shell-shocked World State of war I veteran, Septimus Smith. The setting is London.
To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927)
Woolf's most famous and near autobiographical novel. The novel takes place chiefly at a family summertime house based on Woolf's own family's house in Cornwall (though the novel is set up in the Hebrides), during 2 visits, seven years apart, with events in between described abstractly in a middle department called "Fourth dimension Passes." The "Time Passes" department had been published in French in Dec. 1926.
See also the original holograph draft / transcribed and edited past Susan Dick
(Toronto; Buffalo: Academy of Toronto Press, 1982).
Orlando (2 Oct 1928)
Her most successful novel up to then, in terms of sales (even though publishing information technology as a "biography" confused booksellers), Orlando traces the life of an English nobleman, Orlando, from the Renaissance to the very moment of publication. Orlando, based on Woolf's friend Vita Sackville-West, lives 400 years and changes into a woman in the 18th century.
A Room of One's Ain (24 October 1929)
Woolf's start major feminist criticism, originating in two lectures given in October 1928 to students at the two women's colleges of Cambridge University (Newnham and Girton, here fictionalized equally "Fernham"). First published as a curt essay on "Women and Fiction" in Forum (March 1929), it was thereafter heavily revised to the present vi capacity.
Run across also a report of extant manuscripts edited past S.P. Rosenbaum, Virginia Woolf/Women & Fiction: The Manuscript Versions of A Room of I's Own (Oxford : Blackwell, 1992).
The Waves (October 1931)
This novel is generally considered Woolf's masterpiece, though information technology is also her most experimental (some say most hard) work.
Annotation: The beginning volume-length criticism of VW appeared in 1932, Winifrid Holtby's biography and Floris Delattre's Le Roman psychologiq ue de Virginia Woolf. Delattre writes on VW's use of time (quality vs. quantity).
The Common Reader (Second Series, 1932)
This collection includes both new and revised disquisitional essays, including biographical sketches of Mary Wollstonecraft and Dorothy Wordsworth, and the now-famous essay "How Should One Read a Book?"
Flush (5 October 1933)
A comic novel written from the betoken of view of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel Flush.
The Years (13 March 1937]
A bestseller, popular with critics and readers, this novel traces the life of a Victorian family, the Pargiters, from 1880 to the "Present Day." Begun as a sequel to A Room of Ane's Own, Woolf originally intended to alternate nonfiction essays with the Pargiter'southward story (which illustrates the essays). Woolf ultimately extracted the nonfiction and inverse the working title from "The Pargiters" to The Years. Mitchell A. Leaska has edited the extracted portions and published them equally The Pargiters: The Novel-Essay Portion of The Years (1977), which also includes the earlier version of the 1880 section of the novel.
3 Guineas (iv June 1938)
These feminist essays role as a sequel to A Room of One's Own, including a critique of patriarchy (illustrated with photographs of public figures) and an statement for pacifism in the face of the growing threat of another earth war. The illustrations are not printed in modern editions.
Roger Fry (25 July 1940)
A biography of Woolf'southward friend, the art critic and painter (1866-1934), who had introduced post-impressionism (Picasso, Cezanne) to England in the years before World State of war I.
Betwixt the Acts (17 July 1941)
Woolf's last novel, published afterward her decease. She had changed her mind about publishing it just days before her death (see letter to John Lehmann). Like Mrs. Dalloway, the activeness takes place in a brusk span of time in June and is focused on a social upshot, here a community pageant rather than a party. The setting is June 1939 in the English countryside at a house called Pointz Hall (the working title of the volume), habitation of the Olivers, and in the nearby village, where Miss LaTrobe is in charge of the pageant. The pageant concerns English history, and parts of information technology are office of the narrative.
A Writer's Diary (UK 1953)
The public's first access to Woolf's diaries came in this heavily edited option of diary entries concerning writing or detail works Woolf was writing. The selections were prepared by her hubby, Leonard Woolf. The more complete v-volume edition of Woolf'due south diaries was published 1977-1984, edited by her nephew Quentin Bell'due south wife, Anne Olivier Bell. Six volumes of Woolf'south messages have likewise been published (ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, 1975-1980).
Moments of Being (The states 1976, ed. Jeanne Schulkind)
Woolf frequently spoke of writing her autobiography, but these unpublished autobiographical writings are as shut equally we have to formal autobiography. The earliest, "Reminiscences," was written at the birth of her start nephew, Julian Bell, supposedly as a biography of her sis Vanessa. The latest, "A Sketch of the Past," was written near the stop of her life, patently as the beginning of a formal autobiography. The residual are sketches she read to members of the Memoir Club, who met regularly to read such essays.
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