Only God, and a handful of mortals, understand that the differences between a proton and the planet Jupiter are negligible, if we eliminate the essentially irrelevant factor of mass.īut what, then, about “Mrs. Each is in constant motion according to a series of apparently cogent, but by no means fully comprehensible, rules and principles. Each is an all but imponderable vastness. Woolf knew that questions of scale are relative - that the movements of heavenly bodies seen through a telescope are not any more mysterious or revelatory than those of subatomic particles seen through a microscope.
Dalloway,” Woolf asserted as well that we are all embarked on epic journeys of our own, even though, to the untrained eye, some of us, many of us, might look as if we’re only there to tidy up or to do our best to amuse our bosses. Dalloway,” Woolf insists that a single, outwardly ordinary day in the life of a woman named Clarissa Dalloway, an outwardly rather ordinary person, contains just about everything one needs to know about human life, in more or less the way nearly every cell contains the entirety of an organism’s DNA. Woolf was among the first writers to understand that there are no insignificant lives, only inadequate ways of looking at them. It’s a masterpiece created out of the humblest narrative materials. Dalloway” is a revolutionary novel of profound scope and depth, about a day in the life of a woman who runs a few errands, sees an old suitor and gives a dull party. Woolf committed suicide at age 59.Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Her works helped shape modernist literature, psychology, and feminism, and she is considered one of the greatest lyrical writers of the English language.
Woolf was a prolific writer, producing essays, lectures, stories, and novels until the year of her death. Woolf married Leonard Woolf in 1912, but she also had an influential affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West.
She became friends with several notable intellectuals including John Maynard Keyes, Clive Bell, and Leonard Woolf, and this social circle was soon known as the Bloomsbury Group. Her father’s death and her subsequent sexual abuse by her half-brothers contributed to Woolf’s mental illness.
Woolf was educated and extremely well-read, but she was never given the university opportunities her brothers were. Her mother and half-sister died in her youth, leading to Woolf’s first nervous breakdown. Virginia Woolf was born into a literate, wealthy family in London, the second to last among several siblings and half-siblings.
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