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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() At a young age, Woolf founded Hyde Park Gate News, a family newspaper. Her mother, Julia Jackson Stephen, was a well-connected, kind-hearted woman who modeled for pre-Raphaelite painters and was renowned for her beauty. Leslie Stephen, her father, was a well-known biographer and editor. Virginia Woolf (born Adeline Virginia Stephen) was born on January 25, 1882, in London, England, into a family of artists. ![]() Genre: Modernism/Stream-of-consciousness.This is an attempt to represent the multiple, overlapping, differently focused, and expressed layers of consciousness that James Joyce foresaw when he decided to center all of the action in his novel ‘Ulysses’ (1922) on a single day. The action in each of the two longer sections, “The Window” and “The Lighthouse,” unfolds over a single day. ‘To the Lighthouse’ is a very meticulous body of work. Similar to ‘To the Lighthouse,’ the focus of consciousness in them swings from one character to the next, from their current impressions of the outside world to their inner lives, associations, and memories. Dalloway’ (1925) had previously put to the test what readers thought fiction to be like. ![]() In her two earlier books, ‘Jacob’s Room’ (1922) and ‘Mrs. Virginia Woolf published her fifth book, ‘To the Lighthouse,’ in 1927. ![]()
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