Virginia Woolf
British · 1882–1941
Virginia Woolf was a British novelist and essayist, one of the central figures of modernist literature. Her novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931) pioneered stream-of-consciousness narrative and explored the flow of subjective experience with formal innovation that transformed the English novel. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of intellectuals that included John Maynard Keynes and E. M. Forster. Her essay A Room of One's Own (1929) is a landmark of feminist literary criticism. She died by suicide in 1941.
Books
- To the Lighthouse (1927)
Episodes
- 63. American Pastoral, part 1: Baby's First Lit Fic
- 32. DYEL Christmas party: The most beloved and hated books of 2024
- 8. Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, part 3: We finally get to the fucking lighthouse
- 7. Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 2: Portrait of the autist as an old man
- 6. Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 1: Skill issue
Fleeting mentions
- 68. Middlemarch, part 2: Pity the man with the young hot wife
- 67. Middlemarch, part 1: A wish-fulfilment fantasy for spergy scholars
- 54. Crashing out of Gravity's Rainbow: A postmortem of our first DNF
- 50. A Portrait of the Artist: James Joyce on the difference between tasteful nudes and porn
- 49. C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures: the original stemcels vs shape rotators beef
- 46. Anna Karenina FINALE: Revenge of the Reddit Atheists
- 43. One Hundred Years of Solitude: The optimal amount of incest is non-zero
- 27. Chekhov urself before u wreck-ov urself (The Little Trilogy)
- 12. W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, part 1: Nobody loafs like Larry
- 11. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 3: Was David Foster Wallace a hideous man?
- 9. David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 1: Weaponised therapy-speak
- 4. John Williams' sleeper hit Stoner: Finding perfection in mediocrity
- 1. Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 1: Memeing big fat juicy asses into reality