Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. (Source.)
Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian:
You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general literary language it becomes a jargon, meaningful only to an ingroup. Useful models may be found quite outside the genre. I learned a lot from reading the ever-subversive Virginia Woolf.
I was 17 when I read Orlando. It was half-revelation, half-confusion to me at that age, but one thing was clear: that she imagined a society vastly different from our own, an exotic world, and brought it dramatically alive. I'm thinking of the Elizabethan scenes, the winter when the Thames froze over. Reading, I was there, saw the bonfires blazing in the ice, felt the marvellous strangeness of that moment 500 years ago – the authentic thrill of being taken absolutely elsewhere.
How did she do it? By precise, specific descriptive details, not heaped up and not explained: a vivid, telling imagery, highly selected, encouraging the reader's imagination to fill out the picture and see it luminous, complete.
In Flush, Woolf gets inside a dog's mind, that is, a non-human brain, an alien mentality – very science-fictional if you look at it that way. Again what I learned was the power of accurate, vivid, highly selected detail. I imagine Woolf looking down at the dog asleep beside the ratty armchair she wrote in and thinking what are your dreams? and listening . . . sniffing the wind . . . after the rabbit, out on the hills, in the dog's timeless world.
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Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Fiction, English literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Biography, History and criticism, English Novelists, Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941, Social life and customs, Description and travel, Literature, Women, Women authors, Correspondence, England, fiction, English Authors, Fiction, psychological, English fiction, Poetry, Women and literature, Fiction, short stories (single author), Modern Literature, Man-woman relationships, WarPlaces
England, London (England), Great Britain, London, South America, Araby, Araby bazaar, North Richmond Street, Louisiana, Bellissime, Europe, La Folle's cabin, Travel, United States, Alabama, Bloomsbury, Calcutta, Chênière Caminada, Dublin, France, Grand Isle, Grande-Bretagne, Gulf of Mexico, India, InglaterraPeople
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Mangan's sister, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Alfred Doolittle, Cheri, Chéri’s mother, Colonel Pickering, Doctor Bonfils, Eliza Doolittle, Freddy Eynsford Hill, French, Galatea, Henry Higgins, Jacqueline, Mrs. Higgins, Old Mis', Pygmalion, P’tit Maître, Roger Eliot Fry (1866-1934), Tante, Adèle Ratignolle, Alcée Arobin, Alphonse Ratignolle, Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)Time
20th century, 19th century, 1912, 1798-1980, 1840's, 1861-1865, 1861-65, 1890s, 1900s, 1920's, 1923, American Civil War, Civil War, Irish Revival, June, Siglo XX, carnival, late 19th or early 20th centuryID Numbers
- OLID: OL19450A
- ISNI: 0000000120959604
- VIAF: 39385478
- Wikidata: Q40909
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- Adeline Virginia Woolf
- Virginia, Woolf
- Virginia woolf
- Virginia Stephen Woolf
- bradshaw-david-woolf-virginia
- Virginia; Stephen Woolf
- Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Briggs Virginia Woolf
- Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jane Wheare Virginia Woolf
- FRANCES SPALDING (INTRODUCTION) VIRGINIA WOOLF
- VIRGINIA WOOLF
- V WOOLF
- Virgina Woolf
- V. Woolf
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