WORKS
- THE
VOYAGE OUT 1915
Novel.
Published in 1915,
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's first novel. It tells the story of the
coming-of-age of a young woman, Rachel Vinrace, who accompanies her aunt and uncle,
Helen and Ridley Ambrose, on a voyage to South America, on the Euphrosyne,
Mr. Ambrose's ship. Rachel has lived a sheltered life in England and though she
is a talented musician she knows little of the world, either first hand or
through books, and is acutely unaware of the relations between men and women.
When Mr. and Mrs. Dalloway join the travelers briefly, an infatuation ensues
between Mr. Dalloway and Rachel, culminating in a kiss which awakens Rachel's
dormant sexuality and excites her curiously about men and love. Once in Santa
Marina, Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose; Mr. Pepper, an ill-humored scholar who soon
departs in frustration; and Rachel take possession of a villa where Rachel is
given a private room and where Mr. Ambrose devotes himself to translating the Odes
of Pindar. After visiting a hotel in the town, Helen and Rachel begin a
friendship with two young Englishmen: St. John Hirst, a rather pompous scholar,
and Terence Hewet, a budding novelist. Hewet and Rachel are gradually drawn
together, experiencing a depth of communication rare in the social milieu to
which both belong. But after a picnic excursion into the jungle, where the they
declare their love to each other, Rachel falls ill with fever and slips into a
state of delusion. The local doctor proves incompetent, but by the time another
arrives it is too late and Rachel dies, leaving Hewet disconsolate. The novel
ends as Evelyn Murgatroyd and Mrs. Thornbury, guests at the hotel who had
befriended the young couple, contemplate the meaning of Rachel's death,
anxiously asserting that it could not have not have been an accident and that
"there must be a reason." More realistic and conventional than her
later works, The Voyage Out nonetheless exhibits the poetic sensibility,
graceful prose style, and keen sense of deeply interior states of consciousness
that distinguish Woolf as one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists.
- THE
MARK ON THE WALL 1917
This short story was included in the first publication of the Hogarth
Press entitled Two Stories (the other was by her husband Leonard).
Reprinted in The Complete Shorter Fiction (A60).
- KEW
GARDENS 1919
This short story was reprinted in The Complete Shorter Fiction (A60).
- NIGHT
AND DAY 1919
Novel.
- MONDAY
OR TUESDAY 1921
This collection of short stories was reprinted in The Complete Shorter
Fiction (A60).
- JACOB'S
ROOM 1922
Novel.
Impressionistic novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1922. Experimental
in form, it centers on the character of Jacob Flanders, a lonely young man
unable to synthesize his love of classical culture
with the chaotic reality of contemporary society, notably the turbulence of
World War I. The novel is an examination of character development and the
meaning of a life by means of a series of brief impressions and conversations,
stream of consciousness, internal monologue, and Jacob's letters to his mother.
In zealous pursuit of classicism, Jacob studies the ancients at Cambridge and
travels to Greece. He either idealizes or ignores the women who admire him. At
the end of the novel all that remains of Jacob's life are scattered objects in
an abandoned room.
- MR.
BENNETT AND MRS. BROWN 1924
This essay was reprinted in The Essays
- THE
COMMON READER 1925
This collection of essays was reprinted in The Essays
- MRS.
DALLOWAY 1925
Novel.
- TO THE
LIGHTHOUSE 1927
Novel.
- ORLANDO:
A BIOGRAPHY 1928
Novel.
- A ROOM
OF ONE'S OWN 1929
Extended essay: a woman must have £500 a year and a room of her own if she
is to write fiction.
- THE
WAVES 1931
Novel.
- THE
COMMON READER: SECOND SERIES 1932
Essays.
- FLUSH:
A BIOGRAPHY 1933
A fictional biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s dog.
- THE
YEARS 1937
Novel.
- THREE
GUINEAS 1938
Extended essay on the interrelationship between war, masculinity, and
women’s education and employment.
- ROGER
FRY: A BIOGRAPHY 1940
POSTHUMOUS
- BETWEEN THE ACTS 1941
(ed. by Leonard Woolf) Novel.
- THE DEATH OF THE MOTH AND OTHER ESSAYS 1942
(ed. by Leonard Woolf)
- A HAUNTED HOUSE AND OTHER SHORT STORIES 1943
[i.e. 1944]
(ed. by Leonard Woolf) This collection of short stories was reprinted in
The Complete Shorter Fiction (A60).
- THE MOMENT AND OTHER ESSAYS 1947
(ed. by Leonard Woolf)
- THE CAPTAIN'S DEATH BED AND OTHER ESSAYS
[1950]
(ed. by Leonard Woolf)
- A WRITER'S DIARY 1953
(ed. by Leonard Woolf) Extracts from the complete diary.
- GRANITE AND RAINBOW 1958
(ed. by Leonard Woolf) Essays.
- CONTEMPORARY WRITERS 1965
(ed. by Jean Guiguet) Essays.
- COLLECTED ESSAYS: VOLUMES 1-4 1966-1967
(ed. by Leonard Woolf) A reprinting and re-ordering of the essays in A8,
A18, A27, A29, A30, and A34.
- A COCKNEY'S FARMING EXPERIENCES 1972 [i.e.
1973]
(ed. by Suzanne Henig) Juvenilia. Reprinted in 1994.
- MRS DALLOWAY'S PARTY 1973
(ed. by Stella McNichol) This collection of short stories was reprinted in
The Complete Shorter Fiction (A60).
- THE FLIGHT OF THE MIND 1975
(ed. by Nigel Nicolson with Joanne Trautmann) Collected letters, Vol. I,
1888-1912.
- MOMENTS OF BEING 1976
(ed. by Jeanne Schulkind) Autobiography.
- FRESHWATER [1976]
(ed. by Lucio P. Ruotolo) Play.
- THE QUESTION OF THINGS HAPPENING 1976
(ed. by Nigel Nicolson with Joanne Trautmann) Collected letters, Vol. II,
1912-1922.
- THE DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: VOLUME I 1977
(ed. by Anne Olivier Bell) 1915-1919
- BOOKS AND PORTRAITS 1977
(ed. by Mary Lyon) Essays.
- A CHANGE OF PERSPECTIVE 1977
(ed. by Nigel Nicolson with Joanne Trautmann) Collected letters, Vol. III,
1923-1928.
- THE DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: VOLUME II 1978
(ed. by Anne Olivier Bell with Andrew McNeillie) 1920-1924.
- A REFLECTION OF THE OTHER PERSON 1978
(ed. by Nigel Nicolson with Joanne Trautmann) Collected letters, Vol. IV,
1929-1931.
- WOMEN AND WRITING [1979]
(ed. by Michèle Barrett) Selected essays.
- THE SICKLE SIDE OF THE MOON 1979
(ed. by Nigel Nicolson with Joanne Trautmann) Collected letters, Vol. V,
1932-1935.
- THE DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: VOLUME III 1980
(ed. by Anne Olivier Bell with Andrew McNeillie) 1925-1930.
- LEAVE THE LETTERS TILL WE'RE DEAD 1980
(ed. by Nigel Nicolson with Joanne Trautmann) Collected letters, Vol. VI,
1936-1941.
- THE DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: VOLUME IV 1982
(ed. by Anne Olivier Bell with Andrew McNeillie) 1931-1935.
- THE DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: VOLUME V 1984
(ed. by Anne Olivier Bell with Andrew McNeillie) 1936-1941.
- THE COMPLETE SHORTER FICTION [1985]
(ed. by Susan Dick)
- THE ESSAYS: VOLUME 1 [1986]
(ed. by Andrew McNeillie) 1904-1912.
- THE ESSAYS: VOLUME 2 [1987]
(ed. by Andrew McNeillie) 1912-1918.
- THE ESSAYS: VOLUME 3 [1988]
(ed. by Andrew McNeillie) 1919-1924.
- CONGENIAL SPIRITS [1989]
(ed. by Joanne Trautmann Banks) One-volume selection from the collected
letters.
- A MOMENT'S LIBERTY 1990
(ed. by Anne Olivier Bell) One-volume selection from the complete diary
- A PASSIONATE APPRENTICE [1990]
(ed. by Mitchell A. Leaska) The early journals, 1897-1909.
- PAPER DARTS [1991]
(ed. by Frances Spalding) Selected letters with many illustrations.
- A WOMAN'S ESSAYS [1992]
(ed. by Rachel Bowlby) Selected essays.
- SELECTED SHORT STORIES [1993]
(ed. by Sandra Kemp)
- THE CROWDED DANCE OF MODERN LIFE [1993]
(ed. by Rachel Bowlby) Selected essays.
- TRAVELS WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF [1993]
(ed. by Jan Morris) Travel writings.
- THE ESSAYS: VOLUME 4 [1994]
(ed. by Andrew McNeillie) 1925-1928.