Anna Snaith Boeken

Focusing on colonial women writers during the modernist period, this book explores their journeys to London and the interplay between gender, empire, and modernism. It highlights how these writers navigated and influenced literary landscapes, shedding light on the unique challenges and contributions of women in a colonial context. Through their experiences, the text reveals the broader implications of gender in shaping modernist literature and the cultural dynamics of the time.

This book serves as a comprehensive guide to Virginia Woolf criticism, featuring insightful chapters on feminist, historicist, postcolonial, and biographical approaches. It offers concise summaries of key works and engaging descriptions of various critical perspectives.

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SUSAN HILL AND STEVEN CONNOR The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Written in 1937, this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime, and is a powerful indictment of 'Victorianism' and its values.