Leaska, Mitch.e.l.l. Granite and Rainbow: The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf Granite and Rainbow: The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Reid, Panthea. Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf. Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Criticism/Literary Biographies Dalsimer, Katherine. Virginia Woolf Becoming a Writer. Virginia Woolf Becoming a Writer. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2001. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2001.
DeSalvo, Louise. Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood s.e.xual Abuse on Her Life and Work. Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood s.e.xual Abuse on Her Life and Work. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.
- - - . Virginia Woolf"s First Voyage: A Novel in the Making. Virginia Woolf"s First Voyage: A Novel in the Making. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1980. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1980.
Gordon, Lyndall. Virginia Woolf: A Writer"s Life. Virginia Woolf: A Writer"s Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984.
Lee, Hermione. The Novels of Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1977. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1977.
Kelley, Alice van Buren. The Novels of Virginia Woolf: Fact and Vision. The Novels of Virginia Woolf: Fact and Vision. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
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Furbank, P. N. E. M. Forster: A Life. E. M. Forster: A Life. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
Leaska, Mitch.e.l.l A. The Novels of Virginia Woolf : From Beginning to The Novels of Virginia Woolf : From Beginning to End. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. End. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.
n.o.ble, Joan Russell, ed. Recollections Recollections of of Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf New York: William Morrow, 1972. New York: William Morrow, 1972.
Woolf, Leonard. Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911 to 1918. Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911 to 1918. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964.
a Reference to one of two bronze Sphinxes that flanked Cleopatra"s Needle, an obelisk located on the London Embankment.
b Area of London that was once the site of a pleasure garden (similar to an outdoor amus.e.m.e.nt park).
c Oldest college at Cambridge University, founded in 1284.
d Reference to two prints: one of the Roman Colosseum and one of Edward VII"s wife, Queen Alexandra (1844-1925).
e Greek hero of the epic poem the Odyssey, Odyssey, attributed to the Greek poet Homer; Odysseus spends twenty years struggling to return home after the Trojan War. attributed to the Greek poet Homer; Odysseus spends twenty years struggling to return home after the Trojan War.
f Imaginary town in South America bordering a river and next to a jungle.
g Greek lyric poet (c.522-c.438 B.C.).
h Roman writer Petronius (d. A.D. 66), author of the satirical romance Satyricon; Satyricon; Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-c.54 B.C.). Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-c.54 B.C.).
i Fictional author.
j Isolde"s lines in German composer Richard Wagner"s opera Tristan und Isolde Tristan und Isolde (1859), as translated by Henrietta and Frederick Corder in 1882. (1859), as translated by Henrietta and Frederick Corder in 1882.
k English poet William Cowper (1731-1800) was a favorite of Woolf; several volumes of his letters have been published.
l River in Spain and Portugal.
m The Travellers Club, located in Pall Mall, London, was founded in 1819 for gentlemen who had traveled or resided abroad.
n English novelist Henry Fielding (1707-1754) is buried at the English Cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal.
o American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903).
p Fict.i.tious Latin scientific name for duckweed.
q Elegy (1821) on the death of poet John Keats, by English poet Percy Bysshe Sh.e.l.lev.
r English portrait painters Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) and George Romney (1734-1802).
s German city famous for its Wagner festivals.
t Wagner"s last opera (1882), a favorite at Bayreuth.
u English painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts (1817-1904); Hungarian violinist and composer Joseph Joachim (1831-1907).
v William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806), a Conservative prime minister.
w Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil (1830-1903), third marquess of Salisbury and Conservative prime minister; Alfred the Great (849-899), king of Wess.e.x.
x Richard Dalloway speaking (Latin).
y Quotation from Ariel"s song in Shakespeare"s The Tempest The Tempest (act 1, scene 2). (act 1, scene 2).
z Quotation from stanza 40 of Sh.e.l.ley"s poem Adonais Adonais (see footnote on p. 39). (see footnote on p. 39).
aa That is, both Oxford and Cambridge; Trinity is a college at Cambridge.
ab Reference to speeches by British politician and writer Edmund Burke, published in 1790 and 1774-1775, respectively.
ac John Bright served under William Gladstone, British prime minister from 1868 to 1870; Benjamin Disraeli was prime minister in 1868 and 1874-1880.
ad A fictional figure.
ae Herbert Henry Asquith, Liberal prime minister (1908-1916); Sir Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the Exchequer (1903-1905 and 1919-1921).
af Sailing houseboat used on the Nile River.
ag Beowulf, the earliest known English epic, probably dates from the early eighth century; Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was an English poet and critic.
ah That is, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1778), a six-volume work by English historian Edward Gibbon. (1776-1778), a six-volume work by English historian Edward Gibbon.
ai Ending stanza of "He Abjures Love," by English poet and novelist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).
aj Reference to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, who was feted upon the birth of her first child in 1909.
ak That is, the Cambridge Union Society, a debating society founded in 1815 at Cambridge University.
al English archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans began excavations at Knossos, an ancient Minoan palace on the Greek island of Crete, in 1899.
am Dead liturgical language of the Copts, a Christian sect of ancient Egypt.
an Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist and poet.
ao Diana of the Crossways (1885) is a novel by English author George Meredith about the breakdown of a marriage. (1885) is a novel by English author George Meredith about the breakdown of a marriage.
ap Heroine of Ibsen"s play A Doll"s House play A Doll"s House (1879). (1879).
aq Arthur Wellesley, duke of Wellington (1769-1852), was a commander of the allied forces at the battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon was defeated.
ar Italian patriot and soldier Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), who during various periods of his life lived and fought in South America.
as Belgian priest (born Joseph De Veuster; 1841-1889) who ran a leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
at King"s College, Cambridge University.
au "Barcarolle" is a famous Venetian boat song from act 2 of the opera Les Contes d"Hoffinann (Tales of Hoffmann; Les Contes d"Hoffinann (Tales of Hoffmann; 1881), by French composer Jacques Levy Offenbach. 1881), by French composer Jacques Levy Offenbach.
av English dance for four couples.
aw Popular English hunting song (c.1820) by John Woodc.o.c.k Graves; ken ken is archaic for "know." is archaic for "know."
ax That is, Mr. John Jorrocks, a fox-hunting c.o.c.kney grocer created by English novelist Robert Smith Surtees (1803-1864) in humorous short sketches for New Sporting Magazine. New Sporting Magazine.
ay Novel (1847) by French author Honore de Balzac about a spinster seeking revenge.
az Frank Wedekind (1864-1918), German poet and playwright.
ba Quotation from the opening chapter of Gibbon"s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (see footnote on p. 101). (see footnote on p. 101).
bb Reference to a 1910 bill for women"s suffrage that was voted down in Parliament; British statesman David Lloyd George (1863-1945) was a Liberal member of Parliament at the time.
bc Reference to French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805).
bd Augustus Edwin John (1878-1961), British painter famous for his portraits of authors.
be Conservative British prime minister (1902-1905).
bf Series of dialogues on ideal love by Greek philosopher Plato (c.428-348 or 347 B.C.).
bg That is, admittance tickets; some hospitals for the poor had an application system.
bh British philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill, author of The Subjection of Women The Subjection of Women (1869), served briefly as a member of Parliament; the reference is to a portrait of him painted by George Frederic Watts. (1869), served briefly as a member of Parliament; the reference is to a portrait of him painted by George Frederic Watts.
bi That is, the Girls" Friendly Society, a Christian organization founded in London in 1875 to help young workingwomen.