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To the Lighthouse
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This reader contains 13 essays by distinguished Woolf scholars analyzing the novel from a range of perspectives, including biographical, thematic, structural, and socio-historical.
Maggie Humm’s novel imagines Lily Briscoe’s life outside the pages of To the Lighthouse and beyond the setting of the Ramsay’s summer home, which is a fictional version of Talland House, Woolf’s childhood summer home in Cornwall.
This New York Times article follows Virginia Woolf’s footsteps around St. Ives in Cornwall, providing historical sketches of the seaside town where Woolf vacationed as a child. The writer draws connections between Cornwall, Woolf, and Woolf’s fictional foray into her past in To the Lighthouse.
In this article from The Nation, Alysa Harad responds with scathing satire to fellow writer André Aciman’s belittling of Virginia Woolf, suggesting similarities between him and Woolf’s character Plus, gain access to 8,650+ more expert-written Study Guides. Including features:
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