SAT作文素材 Adeline Virginia Woolf知识讲解

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A d e l i n e V i r g i n i a
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Adeline Virginia Woolf
1总述
2教育背景（social influence）
Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882
Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), was a notable historian, author, critic and mountaineer.[2] He was the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, a work which would influence Woolf's later experimental biographies.
Sir Leslie Stephen's eminence as an editor, critic, and biographer, and his connection to William Thackeray (the father of his first wife), meant that his children were raised in an environment filled with the influences of Victorian literary society. Henry James, George Henry Lewes, Julia Margaret Cameron (an aunt of Julia Stephen),
and James Russell Lowell, who was made Virginia's honorary godfather, were among the visitors to the house.
The sisters did, however, benefit indirectly from their brothers' Cambridge contacts, as the boys brought their new intellectual friends home to the Stephens' drawing room. 3生活的困难
The sudden death of her mother in 1895, when Virginia was 13, and that of her half-sister Stella two years later, led to the first of Virginia's several nervous breakdowns.
The death of her father in 1904 provoked her most alarming collapse and she was briefly institutionalized.
Her breakdowns and subsequent recurring depressive periods were also influenced by the sexual abuse she and Vanessa were subjected to by their half-brothers.
Throughout her life, Woolf was plagued by periodic mood swings and associated illnesses. Though this instability often affected her social life, her literary productivity continued with few breaks throughout her life.
4成就
Woolf began writing professionally in 1900, initially for the Times Literary Supplement with a journalistic piece
Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915
Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English language. In her works she experimented with stream-of-consciousness and the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters.
stream-of-consciousness is a literary method of representing such a blending of mental processes in fictional characters, usually in an unpunctuated or disjointed form of interior monologue.
5女权主义
Virginal Woolf is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of modernism as well as one of the pioneers of women’s liberation from patriarchy.
In the essay, “Professions for women”, she tell her story that how she became a reviewer by overcoming big obstacles, the gender-consciousness.
In the last Queen Victoria, women usually could not achieve their career success because of woman’s traditional role as sympathizer to men.
However, Virginia break the rules by having a mind of her own, expressing what she think to be the truth about human relations, morality, and sex.
Possessing the solution to be a independent woman, Virginia succeed in writing exquisite novels, like Mrs Dalloway , To the Lighthouse and Orlando.
6 别人的帮助
在生活上，伍尔芙也接受了伦纳德的安排，不会对什么问题提出异议。

1913年夏天，伍尔夫精神崩溃，吞服安眠药自杀，是伦纳德的镇静和机智救了她一命，否则我们就不会看到这位意识流大师大部分的惊世之作了。

伦纳德不嫌弃自己患病的妻子，而是一如既往地照顾她，爱护她。

他本来可以公开宣布伍尔夫患上了精神病，但是他没有这样做，他知道，疯人院的生活对伍尔夫的病情不会有什么好处，他愿意自己来承担发生在妻子身上的一切。