Virginia Woolf

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

In 1904, her father died.

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.

Adeline Virginia Stephen - Woolf

August 10, 1912, Virginia and Leonardo married.

Works

A Room of One’s Own

Mrs. Dalloway

To The Lighthouse

The Voyage OutOrlando: A biography

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. 

Drawing roomClarissa Dalloway’s party

MABEL WARING

A severely insecure woman with negative self-esteem.

CLARISSA DALLOWAY

Clarissa is affable and courteous to her guests.

ROSE SHAW

InsincereFashionable

OTHER GUESTS:

ROBERT

HAYDON

CHARLES BURT

MRS. HOLMAN

Exposition

When Mabel received an

invitation to a party.

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made from an outdated pattern.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.

Insecurity

Alienation

Social Class

Happiness is achieved

through being contented.

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.”

Literary Device

Flashback – The author uses

flashbacks to escape the reality but these happy feelings are only

temporary.