Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf war eine einflussreiche englische Romanautorin und Essayistin, die als eine der herausragendsten modernistischen literarischen Figuren des 20. Jahrhunderts gilt. Sie wurde 1882 geboren, die Tochter des Herausgebers und Kritikers Leslie Stephen, und wuchs in einem Haus auf, das mit Intellektuellen und Künstlern gefüllt war. Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter und Stiefschwester litt Woolf an psychischen Problemen, die sie throughout ihr Leben begleiteten. Trotzdem setzte sie sich durch und wurde zu einer bedeutenden Figur in der Londoner Literaturszene, verbunden mit der Bloomsbury Gruppe.

Woolfs bekannteste Werke sind die Romane "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925), "To the Lighthouse" (1927) und "Orlando" (1928) sowie die Essays "A Room of One's Own" (1929). In "A Room of One's Own" prägte sie den berühmten Satz "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolfs Schreibstil ist durch seinen Stream-of-Consciousness-Stil bekannt, der zu ihrer Zeit bahnbrechend war und seitdem zahlreiche Schriftsteller beeinflusst hat.

1912 heiratete Woolf Leonard Woolf, und zusammen gründeten sie den Hogarth Press Verlag im Jahr 1917. Der Verlag veröffentlichte Werke von bedeutenden Autoren wie T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster und Katherine Mansfield sowie die frühesten Übersetzungen von Freud. Woolfs Schreiben beschränkte sich nicht auf Fiktion, sie schrieb auch Essays und zwei Bücher feministischer Polemik, "A Room of One's Own" (1929) und "Three Guineas" (1938).

Woolfs Fiktion ist bekannt für ihre Erkundung von Frauenexperimenten und das Verhältnis zwischen individuellem Leben und den Kräften der Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Zu ihren wichtigsten Romanen gehören "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925), "Orlando" (1928), "The Waves" (1931) und "Between the Acts" (1941). Woolfs Schreiben hat einen nachhaltigen Einfluss auf die Literatur und wird auch heute noch gefeiert und studiert.
Einzelromane
# Titel Jahr
1 The Voyage Out 1915
2 Night and Day 1919
3 Jacob's Room 1922
4 Mrs. Dalloway 1925
5 To the Lighthouse 1927
6 Orlando 1928
7 The Waves 1931
8 The Years 1937
9 Between the Acts 1941
10 Melymbrosia 1981
Kurzgeschichten/Novellen
# Titel Jahr
1 The Mark on the Wall 1917
2 Kew Gardens 1919
3 A Society 1921
4 The Lady in the Looking Glass 1960
5 The Widow and the Parrot 1985
6 Nurse Lugton's Curtain 1991
Plays (with Sarah Ruhl, with Anton Chekhov)
# Titel Jahr
1 Freshwater (With: Edward Gorey) 1935
2 Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando (With: Sarah Ruhl, Anton Chekhov) 2011
Stücke
# Titel Jahr
1 Freshwater 1935
Kurzgeschichtensammlungen
# Titel Jahr
1 The Mark On The Wall & Other Short Fiction 1917
2 Two Stories 1917
3 Monday or Tuesday 1921
4 A Haunted House and Other Short Stories 1944
5 Mrs. Dalloway's Party 1973
6 The Virginia Woolf Reader 1984
7 The Complete Shorter Fiction 1993
8 Collected Short Stories 2019
Virginia Woolf Diaries and Journals
# Titel Jahr
1 A Writer's Diary 1953
2 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One 1977
3 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two 1978
4 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three 1980
5 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four 1982
6 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Five 1984
7 A Moment's Liberty 1990
8 Passionate Apprentice 1990
9 Travels With Virginia Woolf 1993
Essays
# Titel Jahr
1 The Common Reader 1925
2 On Not Knowing Greek 1925
3 How Should One Read a Book? 1926
4 A Room of One's Own 1928
5 Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown 1929
6 On Being Ill 1930
7 The London Scene 1931
8 The Common Reader: Second Series 1932
9 Three Guineas 1938
10 Reviewing 1939
11 Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid 1941
12 The Death of the Moth and Other Essays 1942
13 Moment And Other Essays 1948
14 Granite and Rainbow 1958
15 Contemporary Writers 1965
16 Walter Sickert 1978
17 Books & Portraits 1978
18 Women and Writing 1979
19 A Letter to a Young Poet 2021
Collected Essays
# Titel Jahr
1 The Essays, Vol. 1 1967
2 The Essays, Vol. 2 1967
3 The Essays, Vol. 3 1967
4 The Essays, Vol. 4 1967
5 The Essays, Vol. 5 1986
6 The Essays, Vol. 6 2011
7 Street Haunting 2022
The Letters of Virginia Woolf Books
# Titel Jahr
1 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1 1975
2 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2 1976
3 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3 1977
4 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4 1978
5 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5 1979
6 The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 6 1980
7 Paper Darts 1991
Sachbücher
# Titel Jahr
1 Love Letters 1926
2 Flush 1933
3 Roger Fry: A Biography 1940
4 Moments of Being 1976
5 Selected Letters 1990
6 The Platform of Time 2007
Modern Library Torchbearers Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Persuasion (By: Jane Austen) 1818
2 Wuthering Heights (By: Emily Brontë) 1847
3 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (By: Harriet Ann Jacobs) 1861
4 Lady Audley's Secret (By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon) 1862
5 The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings (By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman) 1892
6 The Awakening (By: Kate Chopin) 1899
7 The Goodness of St. Rocque: And Other Stories (By: Alice Dunbar-Nelson) 1899
8 The Custom of the Country (By: Edith Wharton) 1913
9 The Voyage Out 1915
10 Regiment of Women (By: Clemence Dane, Melissa Broder) 1917
11 The Heads of Cerberus (By: Francis Stevens) 1919
12 The Transformation of Philip Jettan (By: Georgette Heyer) 1923
13 A Daughter of the Samurai (By: Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto) 1925
14 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (By: Anita Loos) 1925
15 Quicksand (By: Nella Larsen) 1928
16 Passing (By: Nella Larsen) 1929
17 Nada (By: Carmen Laforet) 1944
18 The Return of the Soldier (By: Rebecca West) 1970
19 The Selected Poetry (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Olivia Gatwood, Nancy Milford) 2002
20 Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (By: Marie Vieux-Chauvet) 2010
21 American Indian Stories (By: Ziktala-Sa) 2018
22 Narrative Of Sojourner Truth (By: Sojourner Truth, Oliver Gilbert) 2019
23 There Is Confusion (By: Jessie Redmon Fauset) 2020
24 Villette (By: Charlotte Brontë) 2020
25 The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (By: Sawako Nakayasu, Chika Sagawa) 2020
26 The Squatter and the Don (By: Ana Castillo, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton) 2021
27 Mrs. Spring Fragrance: and Other Writings (By: C Pam Zhang, Sui Sin Far) 2021
28 The Southern Woman: Selected Fiction (By: Elizabeth Spencer) 2021
29 The Princess of 72nd Street (By: Elaine Kraf) 2024
30 I Am Clarence (By: Sarah Manguso, Elaine Kraf) 2025
31 Lolly Willowes or, the loving huntsman (By: Sylvia Townsend Warner) 2025
32 The House of Madelaine (By: Elaine Kraf) 2025
33 Plum Bun Without a Moral (By: Jessie Redmon Fauset) 2025
34 Find Him! (By: Elaine Kraf) 2025
35 Nothing Grows by Moonlight (By: Torborg Nedreaas) 2026
36 Memory House (By: Elaine Kraf) 2026
37 The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (By: Katherine Mansfield, Sloane Crosley) 2026
38 A Country Doctor (By: Sarah Orne Jewett) 2026
39 Bread Givers (By: Anzia Yezierska) 2026
Anton Chekhov Plays (with Sarah Ruhl, with Anton Chekhov)
# Titel Jahr
1 On The Harmful Effects Of Tobacco (By: Patrick Couratin, Anton Chekhov) 1886
2 Ivanov (By: Anton Chekhov) 1887
3 The Bear (By: Anton Chekhov) 1888
4 The Wedding (By: Anton Chekhov) 1889
5 A Marriage Proposal / The Proposal (By: Barrett H. Clark, Anton Chekhov, Hilmar Robert Baukhage) 1890
6 The Anniversary (By: Anton Chekhov) 1891
7 Uncle Vanya (By: Marian Fell, Anton Chekhov) 1897
8 The Seagull (By: Anton Chekhov) 1899
9 Three Sisters (By: Anton Chekhov) 1900
10 The Cherry Orchard (By: Anton Chekhov) 1903
11 The Plays of Anton Chekhov (By: Anton Chekhov) 1904
12 A Country Scandal (Platonov) (By: Anton Chekhov, Alex Szogyi) 1930
13 On The High Road (By: Anton Chekhov) 1935
14 Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando (With: Sarah Ruhl, Anton Chekhov) 2011
15 Wild Honey (By: Anton Chekhov) 2016
16 Vanya (By: Anton Chekhov) 2023
Sarah Ruhl Plays (with Sarah Ruhl, with Anton Chekhov)
# Titel Jahr
1 Late: a cowboy song (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2006
2 The Clean House and Other Plays ( By: Sarah Ruhl) 2006
3 The Clean House (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2007
4 Dead Man's Cell Phone ( By: Sarah Ruhl) 2008
5 In the Next Room (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2010
6 Passion Play ( By: Sarah Ruhl) 2010
7 Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando (With: Sarah Ruhl, Anton Chekhov) 2011
8 Dear Elizabeth (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2014
9 The Oldest Boy (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2016
10 Melancholy Play (By: Sarah Ruhl) 2017
Virginia Woolf Anthologies
# Titel Jahr
1 Identity And Self Respect 1952
2 50 Great Short Stories 1952
3 Women and Fiction 1975
4 A World of Fiction 1983
5 Witches' Brew 1984
6 Magical Realist Fiction 1984
7 Famous and Curious Animal Stories 1989
8 That Kind of Woman: Stories from the Left Bank and Beyond 1991
9 On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question 1992
10 Chloe Plus Olivia 1994
11 PEN America Issue 1: Classics 2000
12 40 Model Essays 2005
13 Stories to Get You Through the Night 2010
14 Fathers: A Literary Anthology 2011
15 Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell 2018
16 Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018
17 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die 2019
18 Classic Women's Short Stories 2020
19 Into the London Fog 2020
20 Feminist Literary Classics: Volume II 2022