Virginia Woolf

This is the homepage of the searchable Virginia Woolf Web. Try typing in "death " and "moth " and see what you come up with.

This site contains info on Woolf and Hogarth House. You'll find some biographical and critical information there, and it's a good place to check if you're doing research about Woolf, or would just like more background.

"I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on any longer in these terrible times. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer. I owe all my happiness to you but cannot go on and spoil your life. "

That is Woolf's suicide note. For more, here's an Associated Press story about Woolf's sad death. (Free registration required.)

This is a review of an exhibition about Woolf at the New York Public Library in 1993. The review will give you a glimpse into Woolf's personal history, as it describes letters, manuscripts, paintings, and photographs, among other things. (Free registration required.)

Would you like to put Woolf's work into historical context? Here is a searchable Modernism timeline that will be a great help and is even fun to use. What kinds of things did you find there that you might put into a paper about Woolf?

Here is a cool multimedia Mrs. Dalloway's London. You can click around and take a cyber-tour of the city with one of Woolf's creations acting as your tour-guide. This site brings the book to life and might make you want to read it, or read it again.

This is a good general Bloomsbury page. "Bloomsbury " is a district in London and the name given to a group of Woolf's acquaintances who met to discuss (and argue about) art and politics and other things.

Here is Monday or Tuesday in e-text. Did you know that Woolf also wrote poetry? Why don't you pick a poem, study it, and see how you can compare it to her prose writing style?

This page has links to Night and Day in downloadable formats, and this page has links to The Voyage Out in downloadable formats. Pick one and download it. Do you like reading electronic texts? What are the drawbacks of e-texts? What advantages do they have over plain old paper?