考过GRE的gters，还记得Virginia Woolf 么？

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难句100句里mentioned about her and her works, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
偶然见到了她的照片, such a beautiful lady~~~~~

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Virginia Woolf 1882 - 1941

Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London and educated at home by her father, the biographer Sir Leslie Stephen. She suffered a number of early shocks, including sexual abuse by her half-brother and the death of her mother when she was in her teens. Throughout her life she was subject to mental breakdowns of varying intensity.
In 1905, after her father's death, Woolf and her artist sister, Vanessa, lived with their 2 brothers in a house in Bloomsbury which became the headquarters of the so-called Bloomsbury Group. This collection of artists, writers and intellectuals, generally modernist in outlook, were chiefly united by a strong reaction against the preceding Victorian Age. The group included, amongst others, writer E M Forster, biographer Lytton Strachey and painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.

In 1912, Woolf married a member of the group, the political theorist Leonard Woolf, with whom she founded the Hogarth Press in 1917. After publishing 2 realistic novels, she developed a more experimental approach with her third book, Jacob's Room (1922), based on the life of her brother Toby, who had died tragically in 1906.

Her next novel, Mrs Dalloway (1925), presenting the thoughts and inner lives of several groups of people in the course of a single day, broke new ground with the stream of consciousness technique pioneered by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922). To the Lighthouse (1927) showed great technical mastery, with a form tightly organised through the use of recurrent images and a restricted time frame. In The Waves (1931), she again recorded the stream of consciousness of her creations, inviting the reader to inhabit the minds of her 6 characters from childhood to old age.

In 1928, Woolf published a historical fantasy, Orlando, an imaginative analysis of gender, identity and creativity. "In every human being," she later wrote, "a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place". Covering a huge time span, Orlando also made use of elements taken from the life and family history of her friend and lover Vita Sackville-West.

In her long essay A Room of One's Own (1929), Woolf turned her attention to the cause of women's rights, especially the obstacles that have hindered women writers. Most literature, she claimed, had been "made by men out of their own needs for their own uses".

Woolf wrote some fine criticism, notably The Common Reader (1925), and her posthumously published diaries and correspondence shed much light on her life and work. Dogged throughout her life by a form of hypomania or manic depression, she committed suicide by drowning in 1941.
  


KEY WORKS INCLUDE:
Jacob's Room (1922)
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
The Common Reader (1925)
To the Lighthouse (1927)
Orlando (1928)
A Room of One's Own (1929)
The Waves (1931)
Between the Acts (1941)

(www.bbc.co.uk)

ReOffenderUID: 161647

2002年的Oscar Winner Movie, " The Hours" , Nicole Kidman. 传奇性的Virginia Woolf.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

樱一树UID: 63921

喜欢时时刻刻，也喜欢尼可。基德曼的演出。
对她不是很了解，不敢妄加评论。有机会要看她德作品。
没想到她这么漂亮。。。。

樱一树UID: 63921

还记得电影最后一句是
Always  the Hours......

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记得看这个片子是去年过年，在家里。
今年又要过年了
the hours

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提到dalloway啦
还不快过来看看

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唉
我去传达一下吧

happyqueenUID: 170638

呵呵，依稀记得No4-2-4长呐

我想dalloway会看到的:)

DendisUID: 158017

一下子想起了意识流，什么《追忆似水年华》，什么Virginia Woolf ，当初就发现ets挺bt，喜欢考察错乱的东西，^_^，估计它还要考《尤利西斯》呢～～～

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缅怀一下……