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English 315 Part I 2004 Virginia Woolf Lecture 1 aesthete or feminist revolutionary? In this lecture I want to: 1) offer a very brief sketch of Woolf's life 2) look closely at Lily Briscoe, the artist figure in the novel, and compare her to Mrs Ramsay 3) consider the dinner party 4) consider the relations between politics and art in the novel 1) Basic biography Adeline Virginia Stephen was born 1882 into an upper-middle class intellectual family, part of the Victorian intellectual aristocracy. Her father, Leslie Stephen, was a man of letters, responsible for the Dictionary of National Biography. Virginia was self-educated, mainly by way of her father's large private library. Her mother was a great beauty who died when Virginia was 13. Two years later her sister died. These deaths, perhaps like those that marked Janet Frame's childhood, sparked mental instability that would remain with her throughout her life. Throughout her life she suffered from manic...

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