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As if you couldn't guess, for reference and a general introduction there's a Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf, edited by Sue Roe and Susan Sellers (PR6045.O72 Z5655 2000). Mark Hussey's Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers and Common Readers to Her Life, Work, and Critical Reception (PR6045.O72Z729 1996) is also valuable. A fine recent biography of Woolf is Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf (PR6045.O72 Z7757 1996). The Library has a number of biographical writings on Woolf. The Teaching History Online site has some biographical information on Woolf and Bloomsbury, and extracts from Woolf's diaries. On the Bloomsbury circle in general, see Peter Stansky's On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World (DA685.B65S73 1996). The Bloomsbury Omega Workshop and Hogarth Press site has information on the Bloomsbury group: brief biographies and paintings by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell, among others. There are more paintings at The Bloomsbury Workshop. If you've enjoyed To the Lighthouse, try Mrs Dalloway (PR6045.O72 M7 -- Woolf fans divide on whether To the Lighthouse or Mrs Dalloway is her best book), Orlando (PR6045.O72 O7 -- a wonderful fantasy which begins with the main character as a young man in Elizabethan England and ends up with him a woman in contemporary London), Jacob's Room (PR6045.O72 J3 -- her first major experimental novel), and The Waves (PR6045.O72 W3 -- her most experimental work). Patricia Waugh's Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern (PR116.W38 1989) focuses largely on Woolf, as does Rachel Bowlby's Feminist Destinations (PR6045.O72Z5615 1988); the revised edition, Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf, is on order. As well as being a Woolf biographer, Hermione Lee has an earlier critical book on Woolf, The Novels of Virginia Woolf (PR6045.O72Z775 1977). On Woolf and sexual difference, see Andrea L. Harris's Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson (PR888.F45H37 2000). On her politics and social views, see Alex Zwerdling's Virginia Woolf and the Real World (PR6045.O72 Z99 1986). Daniel Ferrer's Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language (PR6045.O72Z628 1990) is a psychoanalytic reading.
Jane Goldman's The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Post-Impressionism, and the Politics of the Visual (PR6045.O72 Z648 1998) is a good place to go if you want to consider the visual arts and their place in Woolf's work (and in particular, of course, Lily Briscoe's painting). So too is Marianna Torgovnik's The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf (PR888.A74T67 1985). The biggest and most comprehensive Woolf sites are the Virginia Woolf Web., the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, and the International Virginia Woolf Society. The BBC archive has a 7-minute audio file from a talk, Words Fail Me , which Woolf gave on the air in May1929. The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain has a brief online commentary on it. There are a number of online images of Woolf at the National Portrait Gallery site. There are some photos of the Woolfs' home in Rodmell, East Sussex, on Cynthia Burgess's Monk's House site. Coventry Patmore's long poem, The Angel in the House, which is so crucial to To the Lighthouse, is difficult to obtain in print. The Library has an 1898 edition (PR5142 .A4 1898), and Ian Anstruther's edition (PR5142.A4A56 1992), which includes a commentary. There's also a digital version free online from Project Gutenberg (use the search facility). And, if you're really keen on reading it digitally, Amazon.com even lists a version of it for the Microsoft E-Reader. |
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On
Woolf's style, see William A. Evans's Virginia Woolf: Strategist
of Language (