Virginia Woolf Sergio Rodriguez & Jency Varughese

English novelist Essayist Epistler Publisher Feminist 10 th Grade English

Regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20 th century, this “Virginia Woolf Text Set” can be used for biography, character study, literature circles, and research papers.

-> § (8) (D): interpret the possible influences of the historical context on a literary work. -> § (11) (E): connect literature to historical contexts, current events, and his/her own experiences; -> § (10) (C): compare reviews of literature, film, and performance with his/her own responses. -> § (12) (B): evaluate the credibility of information sources, including how the writer's motivation may affect that credibility; -> § (13) (B): locate appropriate print and non-print information using text and technical resources, including databases and the Internet;

Article  Article  The Voyage In Items: Claudia Roth Pierpont, 1996 Uses : Introduction to Virginia Woolf, Biography, Research source

Annotation : “Recently, however, Woolf has been granted a new role in the all too modern female pantheon: the victim. The discovered molestations of her childhood, the bouts of madness that led to her suicide, seem now to commend rather than to qualify her right to speak for women. But Woolf's personal example is in the strength and the steady professionalism that kept her constantly at work…. For all her fragility as a woman, she was a writer of gargantuan appetite, and she knew full well how much she intended to enclose in her fine but prodigious, spreading, unbreakable webs.” Basis: This article was featured in The New York Times “Heroine Worship” series Article  Article  The Voyage In

Nonfiction  Nonfiction  Virginia Woolf: A Biography Items: Quentin Bell Harvest Books, 1974 Uses: For a research paper, biography, or for additional background/ historical information.

Nonfiction  Nonfiction  Virginia Woolf: A Biography Annotation: “The first full-scale biography of the eminent British writer, written by her nephew” Amazon.com Basis: The general consensus of the customer reviews says this book is the “definitive source” with “a most interesting perspective” (amazon.com)

Fiction  Mrs. Dalloway Items: Virginia Woolf, Harcourt, 2002 Uses: Literature circles, character study

Annotation : “Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.” Amazon.com Basis: This book has been considered Woolf’s masterpiece. It has great reviews, calling it “one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century.” -- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours (amazon.com) Fiction  Mrs. Dalloway

Computer Technology  Website Computer Technology  Website Items : NJH, 2008, Funded by the Leverhulme Trust Uses : Research tool for papers, reference

Annotation : “The project aims to bring together the different stages of writing that went into the making of 'Time Passes' to create a record of its development in the form of a genetic edition of the text, and to embed that edition in a network of histories and contexts that reconfigure traditional annotation techniques as a system of linked but separate strands of thought, thus producing a new form of literary archaeology.” (woolfonline.com). Basis : The website has the support and “permission of the Society of Authors and the literary representative of the estate of Virginia Woolf.” (woolfonline.com) Computer Technology  Website Computer Technology  Website

Non-print  Artwork Items : Vanessa Bell Uses : Possible choice for the anticipatory set of a lesson, visual aid

Annotation : “A long-lost portrait of Virginia Woolf, who hated sitting for paintings, has gone on display after its whereabouts was revealed by its owner… The portrait was last seen in 1934, was painted by the writer's sister, the celebrated artist Vanessa Bell.” ( Basis: BBC News (our source to this painting) brought back recognition and interest to the public of Virginia Woolf. Non-print  Artwork

Film  The Hours Items : Dir. Stephen Daldry, Screen Writer David Hare Uses : Character Study, Literature Circle, Visual Representation

Annotation : “The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.” (amazon.com) Basis : 2002 National Board of Review winner for Best Film. Nominated for nine Academy Awards and Best Actress Winner - Nicole Kidman (2002) Film  The Hours