2015 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. "Women and Fiction" was first published in the U.S. in Forum Magazine, a prominent literary journal of the 1920's It is the principle essay and title of a series of lectures Woolff delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. This essay and the Lectures would eventually be published as "A Room of One's Own" in 1929. In this essay Woolf traces the reasons for the very limited achievements among women novelists through the centuries. Why did they fail? They...
2015 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. "Women and Fiction" was first published in the U.S. in Forum Magazine, a promine...
Katharine Hilbery is a beautiful and privileged woman, but she is uncertain of her future. Torn between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney or pursuing her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles with her indecision, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, Margaret, struggling to weave together the documents, events and memories of her own father's life into a biography - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences. Virginia Woolf's second novel is a love story and a social...
Katharine Hilbery is a beautiful and privileged woman, but she is uncertain of her future. Torn between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet Wil...
Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. The novel sets in Edwardian London, and deals with issues concerning women's suffrage, if love and marriage can coexist, and if marriage is necessary for happiness. The novel opens with Katharine Hilbery pouring tea at an afternoon party at her parents'house.(Many of the key events and conversations in the novel take place over that peculiarly English convention, afternoon tea.) A late guest at the tea party is Ralph Denham, a young solicitor who has recently contributed an article to the review edited by...
Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. The novel sets in Edwardian London, and deals with issues concerning wo...
Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. The novel sets in Edwardian London, and deals with issues concerning women's suffrage, if love and marriage can coexist, and if marriage is necessary for happiness. The novel opens with Katharine Hilbery pouring tea at an afternoon party at her parents'house.(Many of the key events and conversations in the novel take place over that peculiarly English convention, afternoon tea.) A late guest at the tea party is Ralph Denham, a young solicitor who has recently contributed an article to the review edited by...
Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. The novel sets in Edwardian London, and deals with issues concerning wo...