1、Virginia Woolf,Adeline Virginia Woolf (born Stephen; January 25，1882 March 28，1941) was an English novelist, essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orla
2、ndo (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of Ones Own (1929).,Biography,Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. Her parents had each been married previously . and She was educated by her parents in the household. The sudden death of her mother in 1895, and that of her half-sister Stella two ye
3、ars later, led to the first of Virginias several nervous breakdowns. Her breakdowns and subsequent recurring depressive periods, were also influenced by the sexual abuse she and Vanessa were subjected to by their half-brothers.,The death of her father in 1904 provoked（惹起） her most alarming collapse（
4、崩溃） and she was briefly institutionalized. After that, Virginia and Vanessa moved to Bloomsbury. With her friends, she formed the nucleus (核心)of the intellectual （知识分子）circle known as the Bloomsbury Group. Virginia Stephen married Leonard Woolf in 1912. In 1922, Virginia met the writer and gardener
5、Vita Sackville-West. After a tentative（尝试性的） start, they began a sexual relationship that lasted through most of the 1920s.,Suicide,After completing the manuscript (手稿)of her last (posthumously 在死后published) novel, Between the Acts, Woolf fell victim to a depression similar to that which she had ear
6、lier experienced. On March 28，1941, Woolf committed suicide. She put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, then walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself. Woolf s skeletonised(成骨架的) body was not found until April 18. Her husband buried her cremated（被火葬的） remains under a
7、 tree in the garden of Monks house, their home in Rodmell, Sussex.,River Ouse,Work,Mrs. Dalloway (1925) centres on the efforts of Clarissa Dalloway, a middle-aged society woman, to organize a party, even as her life is paralleled with （与平行）that of Septimus Warren Smith, a working-class veteran who h
8、as returned from the First World War bearing deep psychological scars.To the lighthouse (1927) is set on two days ten years apart. The plot centers around the Ramsay familys anticipation of and reflection upon a visit to a lighthouse and the connected familial tensions.,Orlando (1928) has a differen
9、t quality from all Virginia Woolfs other novels suggested by its subtitle, A Biography, as it attempts to represent the character of a real person and is dedicated to Vita Sackville-West. Between the Arts (1941) sums up and magnifies Woolfs chief preoccupations: the transformation of life through ar
10、t, sexual ambivalence, and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life.,出航（The Voyage Out，1915年）夜与日（Night and Day，1919年）雅各的房间（Jacobs Room，1920年）达洛维夫人（Mrs. Dalloway，1925年）灯塔行（To the Lighthouse，1927年）奥兰多（Orlando: a Biography，1928年海浪（The Waves，1931年）岁月（The Years，1937年）幕间（Between the Acts，1941年）鬼屋
11、及其他（The Haunted House and Others，短篇小说集,Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-World War I England. It is one of Woolfs best-known novels.Created from two short stories, Mrs. Dall
12、oway in Bond Street and the unfinished The Prime Minister, the novel addresses Clarissas preparations for a party she will host that evening. With an interior perspective, the story travels forwards and back in time and in and out of the characters minds to construct an image of Clarissas life and of the inter-war social structure. In October 2005, Mrs Dalloway was included on TIME magazines list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923.,
