Virginia Woolf

This is the homepage of the searchable Virginia Woolf Web.

This site contains info on Woolf and Hogarth House. You'll find some biographical and critical information there, and it's a good place to check if you're doing research about Woolf.

"I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on any longer in these terrible times. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against but cannot fight any longer. I owe all my happiness to you but cannot go on and spoil your life." For more on Woolf's suicide, consult this Associated Press story. (Free registration required.)

Here is Woolf's short story collection Monday or Tuesday in etext. Read one of the stories, and consider: how does Woolf's fiction style compare to her essay style?

This page has links to Night and Day in downloadable format, and this page has links to The Voyage Out in downloadable format. Pick one, download it, and read a bit. Consider: Do you like reading electronic texts? What are their drawbacks? Do they have any advantages over paper?

This is a review of a 1993 exhibition about Woolf at the New York Public Library. The review will give you a glimpse into letters, manuscripts, paintings, and photographs, among other things. (Free registration required.)

Here is a multimedia page about Virginia Woolf and British Gardens, which allows you to take a cyber-tour of the London and the English countryside at several different sites.

Would you like to put Woolf's work into historical context? This searchable Modernism timeline courtesy of LiquidSquid.com should be a great help.

"Bloomsbury" is a district in London and the name given to a group of Woolf's acquaintances who met to discuss (and argue about) art and politics. Learn more about Bloomsbury here.