Monday, November 4, 2013

Woolf

 
 
 
Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephens. She was an unfortunate, haunted genius, and one of the great Modernist writers. Her best novel might be "To the Lighthouse," an elegant story of a household overrun with children managed by a beautiful, warm mother and a distant, preoccupied philosophical father. It is set in a summer home over a generation. Essential to the book is a search for meaning and the means of that search spread out over time and disrupted by the madness of World War One.

This is Virginia at 20.
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This is her mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson), born in India and later a model for several Pre-Raphaelite painters. She was also a nurse and wrote a book about the profession.



This is the father:

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Nothing about the death of Virginia? Or her death as it was presented by her surviving husband, her body never having been recovered and his account of her death, unwitnessed by him, being the only record of it.

No record of her poor, pathetic madness, no account of Vanessa and Clive Bell, no mention of Vita Sackville West? No view of the decorative style they developed, the Bloomsbury look?