1. Virginia Woolf Novelist, feminist, essayist, publisher, critic and modernist; 25 january 1882 London; 28 March 1941 East Sussex.

2. Biography Virginia was raised in an environment of literary society, connections with a lot of authors and historian: George Eliot and Henry James; Educated at home; –The time that she spent the summer holidays with family in St.Ives have had an influence on her writing (lighthouse).

3. Biography 1885 mother died, Virginia suffered her first mental break- down; also the father died in 1904; Sexual abused by the halfbrothers Duckworth; Moved to Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Group; In 1905 Virginia started revieuwing in The Times Supplement; Married Leonard Woolf, political journalis and author.

4. Virginia got a profound depression, what makes Virginia unable to write anymore.

5. 28 March 1941, River Ouse at Rodmell,East Sussex I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I cant recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V. http://video.google.nl/videosearch?hl=nl&q=virginia+woolf+the+hours&um=1&ie=UTF- 8&ei=tY7LSofbOtPW- Qa_8_jUBA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=9#hl=nl&q=virginia+woolf+the+hours &um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=tY7LSofbOtPW- Qa_8_jUBA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=9&start=60http://video.google.nl/videosearch?hl=nl&q=virginia+woolf+the+hours&um=1&ie=UTF- 8&ei=tY7LSofbOtPW- Qa_8_jUBA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=9#hl=nl&q=virginia+woolf+the+hours &um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=tY7LSofbOtPW- Qa_8_jUBA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=9&start=60

6. Oeuvre The Voyage 1915 Night and Day 1919 Monday or Tuesday 1921 Jacob's Room 1922 Character in Modern Fiction 1924 The Common Reader 1925 Mrs Dalloway 1925 To The Lighthouse 1927 Orlando 1929 A Room of One's 1929------------→Feminism The Waves 1931 The Common Reader, 2nd SeriesBook 1932 Flush 1933 The Years 1937 Three Guineas 1938, Between the Acts 1941 (posthumously )

7. HER BEST-KNOWN NOVELS Mrs Dalloway: a critique of the social system and about issues of madness and suicide; To The Lighthouse: a novel with connections to her own early life; Orlando: Biography and Virginia introduced Vita Sackville- West(her lover); A Room of One’s Own: “ A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”.

8. The Hours

9. Why was Virginia Woolf so different from other writers in her time? Wrote novels with a lot of emphaty; Stream of consciousness, a new vision of writing. Only used by a few people like D. Richardon and J. Joyce. Considered as one of the innovators in the Englisch language; modernist; Feminist