Virginia Woolf

regarding the pain of others (14 person items)

" Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist essay is a"

My Favourite Writers (59 books items)

"11 stars 1917 The Mark on the Wall* 1920 Solid Objects* 1925 Mrs Dalloway*** 1927 To the Lighthouse*** 1928 Orlando*** "

Writers Who Committed Suicide (27 person items)

"Famous English writer Virginia Woolf suffered from a serious depression after she finished writing her last book. She was also one of those who were terribly affected by the post-war world order. In 1941, she filled her pockets with stones and jumped into the Ouse river."

The Moral Imperative of Art (21 art items)

""How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?""

Great Gals (17 person items)

""By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream." “I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.” A Writer's Diary"