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Wat als Shakespeare een geniale zus had gehad? Zou zij dezelfde kansen hebben gekregen als haar broer? Had zij haar talent kunnen ontplooien? Virginia Woolf denkt van niet. Het leven van Judith Shakespeare zou al op voorhand een verdoemd, mislukt leven geweest zijn. In de loop van de geschiedenis hebben vrouwen immers nooit de financiële en materiële onafhankelijkheid gehad die nodig is om ongestoord te kunnen werken en nadenken. En ook van de (mannelijke) kritiek hoefden ze geen st...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text, introduced and annotated by Anne Fernald. A map of Mrs. Dalloway’s London.

An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including diary entries and letters related to the composition of the novel, essays, short stories and biographical excerpts, and the only introduction that Virginia Woolf wrote to any of her novels. The voices of other writers are also included, allowing readers to consider the literary p...

'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate MosseThis volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century.

With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.

Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives a...

For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged.

When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime. As each character tries to readjust their memories and emotions with the shifts of time and reality, this long-delayed excursion will also prove to be a journey of self-discovery and fulf...

Virginia Woolf [1882-1941] geldt als een der belangrijkste en meest vernieuwende schrijvers van de twintigste eeuw. Haar wereldberoemde romans, zoals «Mrs Dalloway» (1925), «To the Lighthouse» (1927), «Orlando» (1928), «The Waves» (1931) en «The Years» (1937), worden beschouwd als meesterwerken van de modernistische literatuur. Zij experimenteerde immers op uiterst overtuigende wijze met psychologische motieven, onorthodoxe verhaalstructuren, doorbreking van chronologie en «stream ...