Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, and other modernist writers. They moved to Hogarth House in Richmond (now part of London), where they founded the Hogarth Press, which published works by T. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915.ĭuring World War I Woolf worked in a series of government offices, and in 1917 she married Leonard Woolf, a political thinker, and civil servant.

She recovered and began to write professionally. In 1897 she suffered her first mental breakdown and was briefly hospitalized. Woolf was educated by her father and then at two independent schools for girls: King’s College London and Queen’s College, London. Her mother died when she was thirteen, an event that Woolf later documented in her first novel, The Voyage Out (1915). Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.īorn in London, Virginia Woolf was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, and Julia Prinsep Jackson. The book has been translated into at least 20 languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Mandarin. Revolution book has been translated into multiple languages since its release in 2014. Multiple Languages Editions of To the Lighthouse Book The Ramsays’ holiday home has been abandoned and is in a state of disrepair. In “Time Passes,” the second section of the book, ten years have elapsed and World War I has begun. Ramsay’s dinner party preparations and the various conversations that take place among the guests. The first section of the book, entitled “The Window,” focuses on Mrs. Ramsay’s protégé and Augustus Carmichael, an elderly poet. The guests at Ramsay’s holiday home include Lily Briscoe, a young painter Charles Tansley, a scholar who is Mr. Ramsay is a more gentle presence in the family, providing emotional support to her husband and children. The Ramsays are a large family with eight children, led by their overbearing father, Mr. The book follows two families, the Ramsays and their guests, as they holiday on the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 19.

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