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    A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "The Waves"
    A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "The Waves"
    A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "The Waves"
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    A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "The Waves"

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    A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "The Waves," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 1, 2016
    ISBN9781535842167
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      A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" - Gale

      09

      The Waves

      Virginia Woolf

      1931

      Introduction

      Virginia Woolf established herself as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century before her 1941 death by suicide. Although her early life was marked by tragedy and she struggled with bouts of debilitating depression, Woolf persevered and wrote prolifically. She was also one of the founders of the Bloomsbury group, an intellectual gathering of some of the top minds of the day.

      After the publication of several novels, essays, and short stories, she began writing the books for which she is most famous. Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928) all received positive critical reviews and were also commercial successes. Thus, as she worked on a book she tentatively called The Moths, Woolf was at the height of her form. This new novel was to be a sort of autobiography, highly experimental, and abstract in form. Woolf envisioned a novel without a plot, but a novel that would reveal the rich interior lives of its six characters. When this strange, mystical novel was published in 1931, it was titled The Waves. For Woolf scholars and the general reader, The Waves is an endlessly fascinating book, one that leads to many interpretations. In its exploration of selfhood, identity, and death, The Waves remains Woolf's modernist masterpiece. A 2006 edition of The Waves, edited by Mark Hussey and introduced and annotated by Molly Hite, is available from Harcourt.

      Author Biography

      Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on January 25, 1882, in London, to Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Jackson Duckworth Stephen. Her father was an eminent Victorian critic, writer, and essayist who founded the Dictionary of National Biography. His first marriage was to Minny Thackeray, the daughter of the famous novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray. When Minny died in 1875, she left Stephen with a daughter, Laura, who was insane. Julia Jackson Duckworth was a widow when she married Stephen, and she brought into the marriage three children, George, Gerald, and Stella. Together, the couple had an additional four children, Vanessa, Adrian, Thoby, and Virginia.

      The family was highly literary and some of the best minds of the day were frequent visitors at the Stephen home. Woolf's godfather, for example, was the American poet James Russell Lowell, who was also the American ambassador in London. Although she

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