AUTHORS: The Brontë Sisters

Dates: 1882-1941 

Nationality: British/English

Literary Periods: 
Inter-War Period, 1918-1939
Modernist Period, 1899-1945
Twentieth Century, 1900-1999

Literary Movements: 
Bloomsbury Group, ca. 1905-1940
Feminist Writers, 1900-
Lesbian/Gay Writing, 1885-
Modernism c.1899-1945
Stream of Consciousness Novel

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This recording of Virginia Woolf's BBC Radio talk, "Craftsmanship," is the only surviving recording of Woolf's voice.

Jean Mills presents "Goddesses and Ghosts: Virginia Woolf and Jane Ellen Harrison In Conversation" which explores the boundaries and origins of Woolf’s intellectual and political views by definitively positioning her in dialogue with the theories and practices of Cambridge Classicist, Jane Ellen Harrison. 10/19/2010  |  READ MORE

Isaac Gewirtz, Curator of the New York Public Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, will present "When Is a Printed Book as Good as a Manuscript?: The Proof Copy of A Room of One's Own".  This lecture compares key passages in the text of the newly acquired proof copy of A Room of One's Own, long regarded as being lost to posterity, to the first edition text. 10/20/2010  |  READ MORE

Anne Fernald, writer in residence at The New York Public Library's Wertheim Study, presents "On Traffic Lights and Full Stops: Editing Mrs. Dalloway".  Dr. Fernald gives an overview of her work while preparing a textual edition of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway for Cambridge University Press. She will discuss newly discovered historical and literary allusions, significant changes at the proof stage, and major differences between American and British editions of the novel. 10/21/2010  |  READ MORE

Focusing on Virginia Woolf

and her circle, past and present

See complete list, including VHS.

Mrs. Dalloway (1998) | Trailer

The Hours (2002) | Trailer

Orlando (1992) | Trailer

Under the Subject Woolf Virginia 1882 1941 Aesthetics

• Virginia Woolf : the frames of art and life / by C. Ruth Miller
  Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988
  Colby Miller Stacks  PR6045.O72 Z8167 1988

• The feminist aesthetics of Virginia Woolf : modernism, post-impressionism and the politics of the visual / Jane Goldman
  Publication Info. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001
  Colby Miller Stacks  PR6045.O72 Z648 2001  

Under the Subject Woolf Virginia 1882 1941 Criticism And Interpretation

• Literary aesthetics of trauma : Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson / Reina van der Wiel
  Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 
  Colby Miller New Books  PR6045.O72 Z943 2014 

Other Subjects: 

• Woolf Virginia 1882 1941 Knowledge Literature
• Woolf Virginia 1882 1941 Correspondence

Scribner Writers Series

Essay and Biography on the life and works of then Brontë Sisters.

• Literary Encyclopedia entry [WEB]
• Literature resource Center [DATABASE] 
  Includes entries from Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Twayne's Authors Series, and Scribner Writers Series
• Literature Online (LION) [DATABASE] 
  Biographical overview, complete bibliography, journal articles, audio & video recordings, and recommended Web sites

Find books, essays and journal articles in MLA International Bibliography [Database]
MLA International Bibliography is the definitive literary research database, indexing the most authoritative scholarship on Virginia Woolf from books and academic journals.  MLA indexes and links to the entire JSTOR literary research collection as well as linking to many other full-text providers.

Woolf Studies Annual [Journal]
Woolf Studies Annual is a peer reviewed journal publishing substantial new scholarship on the work of Virginia Woolf and her milieu. Searchable in MLA International Bibliography.

Full text Journal Articles on Virginia Woolf in Literature Online (LION)

You'll also want to check out...

• A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf, 4th edition [BOOK]

  by B.J. Kirkpatrick | Miller Library Z8984.2 .K5 1997
  Also see 1957 and 1980 editions
• Virginia Woolf: A Guide to Research [BOOK] 

  Thomas Jackson Rice | Miller Library Z8984.2 .R5 1984
• The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf [BOOK]

  edited by Sue Roe and Susan Sellers | Miller Library PR6045.O72 Z5655 2000
• The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf [BOOK]

  Jane Goldman | Miller Library PR6045.O72 Z647 2006
• Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies [BOOK]

  edited by Anna Snaith | Miller Library PR6045.O72 Z87675 2007
• Virginia Woolf [E-BOOK]

  Michael H. Whitworth (Oxford University Press, 2005

   

   

  Browse all Colby materials about Virginia Woolf 

• Times Digital Archive 

  The Times Digital Archive is a full-image online archive of The Times [London] from 1785-1985. The text within the images is fully searchable at the article level.
• Historical Newspapers

  ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers full-text and full-image articles for significant US newspapers (including the New York Times) dating back to the 18th century.
• Virginia Woolf Archives at the New York Times

  News about Virginia Woolf, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
• British Periodicals Online

  This unique digital archive provides the full text of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.

Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers: The Hogarth Press, 1917-41  [Book]
J.H. Willis, Jr.  |  Miller Library Z232 .H73 W54 1992 

You'll also want to check out...

• Thrown to the Woolfs [BOOK]

  John Lehmann | Miller Library PR6023.E4 Z519
• A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946 [BOOK]

  By J. Howard Woolmer ; with a short history of the press by Mary E. Gaither 
  Special Collections ROBSN Z232.H73 W66 1986
• Colby materials published by The Hogarth Press

• Virginia Woolf "The Hours": The British Museum Manuscript of Mrs. Dalloway [MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILE] 

  transcribed and edited by Helen M. Wussow | Miller Library PR6045.O72 M73 1996
• Women & Fiction: The Manuscript Versions of "A Room of One's Own" [BOOK] 

  Virginia Woolf; transcribed and edited by S.P. Rosenbaum | Miller Library PR6045.O72 Z474 1992
• Virginia Woolf's reading notebooks / Brenda R. Silver 

  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1983
• The Waves 

  Virginia Woolf ; the two holograph drafts transcribed and edited by J. W. Graham
• Pointz Hall : the earlier and later typescripts of Between the acts 

  Edited, with an introduction, annotations and an afterword by Mitchell A. Leaska
• To the lighthouse : the original holograph draft 

  transcribed and edited by Susan Dick

The Diary of Virginia Woolf  [Book Set]
edited by Anne Oliver Bell, introduced by Quentin Bell. Miller Library - PR6045.O72 Z494 1977

For an abridged version of Woolf's diaries, see A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary 

You'll also want to check out...

• Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings [BOOK]

  Virginia Woolf; edited with an introduction and notes by Jeanne Schulkind | Miller Library PR6045.O72 Z535
• A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 [BOOK]

  Virginia Woolf; edited by Mitchell A. Leaska | Miller Library PR6045.O72 Z473 1990
• A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf [BOOK]

  edited by Leonard Woolf | Miller Library PR6045.O72 Z5 1973
• Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks [BOOK]

  Brenda R. Silver | Miller Library PR6045.O72 Z8764 1983

The Letters of Virginia Woolf  [Book Set]
editor Nigel Nicolson, assistant editor Joanne Trautmann. Miller Library - PR6045.O72 Z525 1975b

Volume 1: The Flight of the Mind, 1888-1912

Volume 2: The Question of Things Happening, 1912-1922

Volume 3: A Change of Perspective, 1923-1928

Volume 4: A Reflection of the Other Person, 1929-1931

Volume 5: The Sickle Side of the Moon, 1932-1935

Volume 6: Leave the Letters 'till We're Dead, 1936-1941

You'll also want to check out...

• Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf [BOOK]

  edited by Joanne Trautmann Banks
  Miller Library PR6045.O72 Z48 1990 or Special Collections PORTER PR6045.O72 Z48 1990
• The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf [BOOK]

  edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska; with an introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska
  Miller Library PR6037.A35 Z497 1985 or Special Collections ROBSN PR6037.A35 Z497 1985
• Virginia Woolf & the Raverats: A Different Sort of Friendship [BOOK]

  edited by William Pryor | Miller Library PR6045.O72 Z48 2003