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Brought to you by Penguin. 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman’s cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond...

In Shaggy Muses, we visit Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush, the golden Cocker Spaniel who danced the poet away from death, back to life and human love. We roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Emily Brontë, whose fierce Mastiff mix, Keeper, provided a safe and loving outlet for the writer’s...

Discover the remarkable life of Virginia Woolf.... Virginia Woolf ranks among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Embracing the Post-Impressionist times in which she lived, her novels reflect the artistic shift from romanticism to abstract. Plot mattered very little to Woolf. Her writing was a stream of consciousness outside of time and place. Her novels, including her best-known work, Mrs. Dalloway, invariably dwell on gender roles and the concept of reality.

Au cours de ce voyage sensible dans l’intimité des deux écrivaines qui ont le plus compté pour elle, Tatiana de Rosnay nous livre quelques-uns de leurs secrets. Et nous révèle comment ils ont imprégné son imaginaire. Entrez dans ce joli cottage en lattes de bois avec son toit d’ardoise, entouré d’un luxuriant jardin. Nous sommes à Monk’s House, dans le Sussex. Le petit paradis de Virginia Woolf, là où elle aimait vivre isolée, là où elle écrivit son chef-d’œuvre, Mrs Dalloway.

Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was an English writer from Kensington, London, who pioneered a narrative mode called "stream of consciousness" to describe the thoughts and feelings of the narrator. Regarded as one of the most prominent modernist 20th-century writers, Woolf's works have gained much attention for inspiring feminism, as well as, numerous films, novels, and plays. The following recording is from a radio broadcast on April 29th, 1937.

Dâhiler ve Aşkları; sanat, edebiyat, bilim ve düşün tarihinin önde gelen dâhilerinin yaşadığı aşkları, eserleri paralelinde ortaya koyan, ansiklopedik ölçekte bir biyografi kitabı. Gerek ülkemizde, gerekse dünyada toplam olarak bu kapsamda oluşturulmuş nadir eserlerden biri olma özelliği de taşıyan bu önemli kitap; içinde yer alan dâhilere, yaptıkları çalışmalar ve ilgi alanları açısından oldukça yakın değerli yazar ve şairlerimizin yoğun çabalarıyla ortaya çıktı.

Nel luglio del 1916, Garsington, la villa di campagna della patrona delle arti Ottoline Morrell, non è solo un rifugio per obiettori di coscienza in piena Prima guerra mondiale, ma un vero e proprio teatro dove, settimana dopo settimana, approda «una compagnia di giro», pronta a esibirsi senza pudore. C’è chi legge Keats ad alta voce, chi dipinge nudi en plein air, chi alleva maiali, chi scrive opuscoli contro la leva obbligatoria.

Virginia Woolf es considerada como una de las más destacadas figuras del modernismo literario del siglo XX.