Virginia woolf biography powerpoint 2nd grade
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Biography of Virginia Woolf
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virginia woolf
1. Virginia Woolf 1882-1941
3. Bio - continued 1905: began writing professionally initially for the Times Literary Supplement. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a civil servant and political theorist. 1915: first novel, The Voyage Out, was published. Her novels are considered revolutionary and pioneered literary modernism. Late 1920�s Began an affair with writer Vita Sackville-West
4. Bio � part 3 considered a leading modernist one of the greatest innovators in the English language. experimented with: stream-of-consciousness, underlying psychological /emotional motives of characters fractured narrative and chronology. Impact is still felt today.
5. Bio � part 4 1941: committed suicide, by drowning herself near her home in Rodmell. She filled her pockets with stones jumped into the Ouse River. left a suicide note: "I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer."
6. Part II: Literary Style
7. Literary Style �Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions�trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of s
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