Adeline Virginia Stephen - Woolf
An English novelist, critic, essayist, short story writer, diarist, and biographer.
Adeline Virginia Stephen - Woolf
Born on January 25, 1882At 22 Hyde Park Gate, LondonMother: Julia Prinsep StephenFather: Sir Leslie Stephen
Adeline Virginia Stephen - Woolf
Hyde Park Gate NewsA family newspaper to document her family’s humorous anecdotes.
Adeline Virginia Stephen - Woolf
She had been traumatized at the age of 6 when her half-brothers sexually abuse her.
Adeline Virginia Stephen - Woolf
Her mother suddenly died at the age of 49.Two years later, her sister, Stella also died.
Adeline Virginia Stephen - Woolf
She managed to take classes in German, Greek and Latin at the Ladies’ Department of King’s College London despite her misery.
Adeline Virginia Stephen - Woolf
During her early 20s, she became acquainted with several members of the Bloomsbury Group.
Adeline Virginia Stephen - Woolf
Bloomsbury Group
A circle of intellectuals and artists who became famous in 1910.
Adeline Virginia Stephen - Woolf
She met Leonard Woolf, a writer and a member of the group who took a fancy at her.
Adeline Virginia Stephen - Woolf
March 28, 1941 committed suicide by walking out into the River Ouse with her pockets filled with stones as she waded into the water.
Was written in 1924, and was published in May 1927.
It is about the feelings of a woman towards herself and her reaction to the behaviors of others when they meet her.
It is also about the agonies and human experience in
fashion.
Rising Action
When Mabel went to the party
wearing her yellow silk dress
made from an outdated pattern.
When she saw herself on the
mirror and started imagining that the
other guests exclaiming to
themselves over what a fright she
looks.
She begins to berate herself for trying to appear original that
her self-condemnation verges on self-torture.
Falling Action
When she suddenly realized, in the
middle of torturing herself, that she
was now 40 and she should stop
degrading and comparing herself
to a fly.
ConclusionWhen she said
“Goodnight.” to Mrs. Dalloway, waved her hand to Charles and
Rose Shaw with a thought that she would
never give chance to others to thought about her or her dress again,
and left the party.
Lesson“We have to learn
to be our own best friends
because we fall too easily into
the trap of being our own worst
enemies.”
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