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Virginia Woolf: An Introduction. The Stephen Family.

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1 Virginia Woolf: An Introduction

2 The Stephen Family

3 22 Hyde Park Gate (1882-1904)

4 Talland House, Godrvey Lighthouse, St. Ives,Cornwall

5 Deaths, Marriages, and Breakdowns 1895 (13) death of Julia Stephen (Mother) possible suicide attempt; 1st breakdown 1897 (15) death of Stella Duckworth (older half-sister) 1904 (22) death of Leslie Stephen (father) 2nd serious breakdown; suicide attempt 1906 (24) Thoby (brother) dies typhoid on trip to Greece wi sisters 1907 (25) Vanessa marries Clive Bell 1912 (30) Feb-- 2 wks in nursing home; May, LW proposes; VO finished; marries Leonard Woolf, 10 August 1913 (31) V Out accepted for publication delayed b/c breakdown & suicide attempt 1914 War declared Aug. 4 1915 (33) VO published; begins Diary; take Hogarth house & buy press Feb & March, nursing home

6 Vanessa (1902) and Virginia (1907)

7 Bloomsbury: 46 Gordon Sq 1904-07

8 London and Enviorns (Fitzroy Sq.)

9 Bloomsbury Connections Cambridge Connections Adrian and Thoby Stephen Lytton Strachey Maynard Keynes Desmond (& Molly) McCarthy Saxon Sydney-Turner Leonard Woolf E.M. Forster Art Connections Roger Frye Clive Bell (Cambridge) Duncan Grant (Strachey )

10 Bloomsbury Portraits

11 Roger Fry and the First Post-Impressionist Exhibition 1910

12 Dreadnought Hoaxers in Abyssinian Dress (1910)

13 Bloomsbury Group

14 G. E. Moore (who taught several of the Bloomsbury men at Cambridge University) "By far the most valuable things which we know or can imagine are certain states of consciousness, which may roughly be described as the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects."

15 Virginia & Leonard at Asheham (1912-19) m. 1915

16 Suffield and Hogarth House, Richmond 1915-24

17 Homes in Sussex

18 Charleston, Vanessa’s Home in Sussex 1916-78 (Duncan’s death)

19 Monk’s House 1919-1941/69

20 Monk’s House Interior

21 Vita Sackville-West (V&V meet 1925)

22 Woolf’s Writing Studio

23 Water Meadows, Rodmel

24 The River Ouse


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