" Virginia Woolf / Through the Looking Gla" (CC BY-SA 2.0) by Christiaan Tonnis INTRODUCTION “She engaged with courage and painful honesty in the extremely difficult work of understanding the meaning of her childhood.” (Lee 126) People usually find the memories of childhood as a beautiful souvenir of life, but for Woolf it is the life threatening experience full of horrible moments. Still she showed courage and painful honesty while revealing the real meaning of her past experiences with childhood. FEAR OF LOOSING NEAR & DEAR ONE Death was the painful horrible content which was unintentionally lying in almost all of her novels. The content of her books were dominated by this experience of loosing someone. The reason is quite simple because she faced the experience of losing her near and dear ones since her childhood, whether it’s about her mother, father or her siblings. This is the reason why unintentionally Woolf discussed about death in her
" Is it just me or could Virginia Woolf be"(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by olvado INTRODUCTION VIRGINIA WOOLF belongs to Modern Age, which starts from 1901 to 1960. This age is also called Age of Anxiety. Due to wars, deaths, sufferings, mental tensions the author's literary works has also got affected. Virginia is not only the example for these sufferings. There is a long list of authors (Indian authors too) who faced the same problems of that Era. In this post we' ll put a brief glance on authors, whether they are foreign English or Indians who have almost same style of writing focussing the themes of Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Androgyny, Depression, Autobiographical content, Time &Timelessness, Interior Monologue, Symbolism, Imagiasm, Theory of Thanatos, War Fare etc. MAJOR NOVELISTS OF MODERN AGE A. Foreign novelists : 1. D.H. Lawrence 2. James Joyce 3. Dorothy Richardson 4. Somerset Maugham 5. H. W. WELLS 6. Joseph Conrad 7. Ald