3LB: The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf

Homework due on 1st February


“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”  

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

While watching the videos take notes about the information required or answer the questions

First part


1) Virginia's family (father, mother, brother and sisters)
2) Virginia's education
3) Did her parents' death influence her work?
4) When did Virginia and her siblings move to Bloomsbury?
5) What did her house become?
6) What was the Bloomsbury group and what did their members do?

Second part



1) How many times did Virginia go off her head?
2) What was one of the cause of her mental breakdown?
3) When did she publish her first novel The Voyage out and what was it about?
4) Which aspect of people's relationships did Virginia attempt to describe?
5) What was the Hogart Press? Why was it important for Woolf as a writer?
6) How was Virginia used to write?

Third part





1) What was Virginia's sexual life like?
2) What is A Room of One's Own?
3) Why were the Woolfs worried about the German attack?
4) How did she live during the WWII?
5) How did she die?
6) What part of her work has been valued in the long run and why?
7) Which was her advice and why?
 

This is the last letter written by V. Woolf before committing suicide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-Ih1ENGn4

1) Why did she decide to take out her life?
2) Which information does the letter give us about her life and personality?