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Virginia Woolf Grade Level:  9-12 Classic Reader's free online collection of classic stories currently comprises more than three thousand works of literature (including nearly two thousand short stories) by more than three hundred authors. New works are added regularly. The entry on Virginia Woolf, British novelist, feminist essayist, critic, and key figure in the so-called "Bloomsbury group," features a biographical sketch, an image of the author, and the complete text of three novels: Jacob's Room, Night and Day, and The Voyage Out. Topic: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941 URL: http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.40/ Virginia Woolf Grade Level:  9-12 Bartleby.com, Internet publisher of free literature, verse, and reference tools for students and other researchers, includes a collection of resources related to English author and Bloomsbury group luminary Virginia Woolf. "As a novelist Woolf's primary concern was to represent the flow of ordinary experience," according to the Columbia Encyclopedia entry cited. A link to the complete text of Monday or Tuesday, a "[c]ollection of eight short stories, highly representative of Woolf's stream of consciousness style," is featured, as well as an image of the writer. Topic: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941 URL: http://www.bartleby.com/people/Woolf-Vi.html Virginia Woolfe (1882-1941): A Short Biography Grade Level:  6-8  9-12 The Virginia Woolfe Society of Great Britain has created an incredible site full of information about this well-known and respected twentieth century author. View photographs of her home and life as you also explore this great biography. You will quickly realize the tremendous influence her background had upon her writing. Make sure you explore the useful links and resources located to the left of the site to learn more about the titles of her works, descriptions of her works and other lasting contributions she has made. Topic: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941 URL: http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/vw_res.biography.htm Woolf, Virginia Grade Level:  9-12 An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video, and art, the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database comprises entries that serve as resources in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings. The works in the database were annotated because of their value in medical humanities. Two works by English writer Virginia Woolf are represented: the essay "On Being Ill," and the novel To the Lighthouse. The entries include summaries and commentaries, as well as the key words by which the works may be searched. Topic: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941 URL: http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/People?action=view&id=2209 Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Grade Level:  9-12 "Imaginative work... is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners," believed Virginia Woolf. This guide to Woolf comprises an image, links to ten related Guardian features and reviews, and a number of facts about the author arranged under such headings as "Critical verdict" ("Woolf produced some of the highest points of high modernism with her extraordinary ultra-realistic yet experimentally stream-of-consciousness novels"), "Now read on," and "Recommended biography." Topic: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941 URL: http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,97501,00.html Biography of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Grade Level:  9-12 This GradeSaver entry features an image and biography of English writer Virginia Woolf, as well as links to online study guides for three of Woolf's books: the novels Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse and the non-fiction piece A Room of One's Own, which is considered the first major work of feminist criticism. "Both genders thus obscure their subjects and instead focus on themselves and their own personal grievances. The writer of incandescent genius, Woolf maintains, rises beyond his or her petty gripes and attains a heightened, objective relationship with reality; the subject is the world, not the writer's self." Topic: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941 URL: http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_virginia_woolf.html Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Grade Level:  9-12 In A Room of One's Own (1929), British author and early feminist Virginia Woolf famously asserted, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf, who had both, founded Hogart Press with her husband, writer and critic Leonard Woolf. The firm published her books, including Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and Mrs. Dalloway. An image, a number of quotations, and a list of related links complement this literary biography at The Free Library. Topic: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941 URL: http://woolf.thefreelibrary.com/ Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Grade Level:  9-12 Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta, associate professor of English at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, maintains the World Lit Website, a resource designed to complement his course lectures. The site features notes on key authors such as English novelist and early feminist Virginia Woolf, whose works include Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931). The entry comprises biographical information, brief discussions of her contexts, study material specifically related to the short story "An Unwritten Novel," and related links. Topic: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941 URL: http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/woolf/ Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 Grade Level:  9-12 The web site resources for BBC Four include a section entitled "Interviews," which features the seven-plus-minute audio segment "Words Fail Me." In this April 29, 1937 segment, Virginia Woolf, "[i]nnovative novelist, perceptive critic, and pioneering feminist essayist" offers a eulogy to words: "Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations--naturally. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries." An image and biography of Woolf complement "Words Fail Me." Topic: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941 URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/woolfv1.shtml Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941 Grade Level:  9-12 The University of Adelaide Library maintains eBooks@Adelaide, a free collection of classic works in literature, philosophy, science, and history available online. British novelist, critic, and early feminist Virginia Woolf is represented in this collection by seventeen works, including The Voyage Out (1915), Night and Day (1919), Jacob's Room (1920), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), A Room of One's Own (1929), Between the Acts (1941), and A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944). An image and biographical note complement the entry. Topic: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941 URL: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/ 'George Eliot' by Virginia Woolf Grade Level:  9-12 The editors of Celebration of Women Writers maintain that works by and about women writers are often difficult to locate. This online resource archives all sorts of work--novels, poems, religious commentaries, letters, travel books, histories, biographies, economic and scientific works--with the goal of promoting the "breadth and variety of women's writing." This entry comprises the complete text of Virginia Woolf's essay on George Eliot (the pen name of novelist, translator, and religious writer Mary Ann Evans). Topic: Eliot, George,--1819-1880 URL: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/woolf/VW-Eliot.html Thomas Love Peacock Grade Level:  6-8  9-12 Thomas Love Peacock's work "Crotchet Castle" is regarded by many as English satire, and is available for complete reading on this web site. Along with the novel is criticism of the work by Virginia Woolf, and links to other web sites that focus on Arthurian and Romantic nineteenth century writers. Topic: Satire, English URL: http://www.thomaslovepeacock.net Maud Powell (1867-1920); The Complete Recordings 1904-1917, Volume 2 Grade Level:  9-12 In his review of the second volume of American violinist Maud Powell's recordings, Jonathan Woolf describes her as "the first violinist to be signed by Victor, a genuine proselytiser for American music, an inveterate tourer, quartet leader, musical barnstormer and one of the finest string players of her time." Born in 1867 in Peru, Illinois, Powell is largely unknown today: She died five years before the invention of electric recording, so the recordings that form her legacy are the products of the primitive "recording cylinder." Woolf's article combines critical review and biographical information and includes images of Powell. Topic: Women musicians URL: http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2001/Dec01/Maud_Powell2.htm Albee, Edward Grade Level:  6-8  9-12 One of the leading American dramatists of his generation is Edward Albee. He was born in Washington, D.C. This small biography states that most of his work constitutes an absurdity commentary on American life. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" is considered his finest work. This won a Tony Award in 1962. Edward Albee won the Pulitzer Prize for "A Delicate Balance" (1967, "Seascape" (1975), and "Three Tall Women (1994). Do you know which play he wrote that was a portrait of the artist Louise Nevelson? Topic: Dramatists, American  URL:  http://www.bartleby.com/65/al/Albee-Ed.html    Born or Made?  Grade Level:  9-12  Find out what Howard Gardner has to say about extraordinary minds, and whether geniuses are made or born that way. As a developmental psychologist, he studied and wrote about the lives of Mozart, Freud, Woolf, and Gandhi. Explore the four principal types of extraordinary people, from the master of their specialty to one who tests the limits of many disciplines, and from intensely introspective to influencing millions. Investigate the role of natural talent, ambition, dedication, hard work, luck, wounds, and historical time period in their chosen domain. Understand how extraordinary people turn adversity into strength. Topic: Genius URL: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/gergen/august97/gardner_8-27.html Spartacus Educational Grade Level:  6-8  9-12 If you are familiar with the American's practice of rationing during World War II, you will find it interesting to discover what life was like in Britain during this time, how rationing was practiced, and how the people of Britain responded. Multiple accounts from people such as Winston Churchill and Virginia Woolf, who experienced rationing, are included on the page as well. Throughout the article are links to additional information that describe selected terms. You will also find a cartoon that ran in a magazine in 1943. Topic: Rationing URL: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWrationing.htm