1. GROUP LOVGISM t

2. VIRGINIA WOOLF
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3. Her motherJulia Duckworth (of the Duckworth publishing family).
Virginia Woolf
Born in 1882, London
Her fatherLeslie Stephen (Victorian man of letters - first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography)
Her motherJulia Duckworth (of the Duckworth publishing family).

5. 1904. Death of father. Beginning of second serious breakdown.
Virginia Woolf
1895. Death of her mother. V.W. has the first of many nervous breakdowns.
1904. Death of father. Beginning of second serious breakdown.
1904 .VW's first publication is an unsigned review in The Guardian.

7. 1909. Lytton Strachey [homosexual] proposes marriage.
Virginia Woolf
1909. Lytton Strachey [homosexual] proposes marriage.
1910. Works for women's suffrage
1912. Marries Leonard Woolf. Travels for honeymoon to Provence, Spain, and Italy. Moves to Clifford's Inn.

9. Vita Sackville-West

11. Virginia Woolf
1913. Mental illness and her first attempted suicide. Put in care of husband and nurses
1922. Jacop’s room published. Meets Vita Sackville-West with whom she has a brief love affair.
1928. Orlando published - a fantasy dedicated to and based upon the life of Vita Sackville-West and her love of her ancestral home at Knole in Kent.
1930. First meets Ethel Smyth - pipe-smoking feminist composer, who falls in love with VW.

13. Virginia Woolf
1941. VW completes Between The Acts, her last novel, then fearing the madness which she felt engulfing her again, fills her pockets with stones and drowns herself in the River Ouse, near Monk's House.

15. VICTORIAN AGE Materialistic view Class discrimination
Strict rules,taboos on religious, artistic social, sexual issues.
Significance of wealth, prestige, power

16. AESTHETICISM Art for art’s sake
Rejection of victorian notion(materialism)
Feelings, sensation, not political, social problems.
Death is nice according to aestheticism

17. MODERNISM
Developing innovative literary tecniques to reveal women’s experience and find an alternative to male-dominated views.

18. Stream of Consciousness
A style of writing to express to flow of a characters’ thoughts and feelings.
The technique aims to give readers the impression of being inside the mind of character.

19. Bloomsbury group
Its members were committed to a rejection of what they felt were the strictures and taboos of Victorianism on religious, artistic, social, and sexual matters.
They remained a fairly tight-knit group for many years; recent biographers have detailed their tangled personal relations.

20. By the 1920s Bloomsbury's reputation as a cultural circle was fully established to the extent that its mannerisms were parodied and Bloomsbury became a widely used term connoting an insular, snobbish aestheticism.

21. Unique in the brilliance, variety, and output of its members, the group has remained the focus of widespread scholarly and popular interest.

22. Movements that influenced Virgina Woolf
Feminism
Her father’s attitude towards her
Inequality between man and woman in terms of social life, rights, education etc.
Indifference of women towards their rights.

24. Sexuality:
Due to the sexual rape of her half-brother in her childhood, she becomes sapphist.
Then she experiences crisis of madness which results in her suicide.

26. THE LEGACY

27. THEMES Lack of communication. Man-dominated society. Socialism.
Materialism,emperialism.
Disloyalty of woman.

28. Corruption of family institution
Conflict of expectations between man and woman
Class discrimination
Aestheticism
Getting awareness of woman about personal identity

29. CHARACTERS Gilbert Clandon Selfish Self-centered Conceited
Victorian age upper class man
Supporter of emperialism
Indifferent to his wife
Dominated male figure

30. Angela
Victorian age upper class woman
Has an affair with a lower socialist man
Coward
Alone
Lack of communication with her husband

31. Passive female figure looked down on by her husband
Dependent on her husband
Dies for her love.
Seeks for real love
Modest

32. B.M
Supporter of socialism&communizm.
Lower class man
True lover of Angela
Determined.
Self-sacrifying.
Modest

33. Sissy Miller
Cunning
Key woman as she reveals the truth about the love affair between her brother and Angela.
Lower class woman.

34. FIGURES OF SPEECH The legacy: verbal irony
Pearl brooch: symbolrefers to materialism
The relation between Angela and Gilbert: situational irony
Chinese boxes: symbolAngela’s relation with B.M.
The diary: symbol
The blank pages: symbol Angela begins to feel happiness with B.M but while she is waiting an answer from him, she doesn’t write anything down to her diary. Because, she doesn’t feel anything during that time.
The kerb: symbol