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Part of the "Critical Assessments of Writers in English" series, the aim of which is to provide complete collections of previously published, formative critical assessments covering the whole work of individual writers. They should be useful to serious readers of literature, researchers and advanced students. Many of the pieces included were originally published in journals or books which are now out of print or very difficult to obtain. Each set has an authoritative introductory survey, as well as a full bibliography and biographical details. This collection attempts to present as wide a view as possible of Virginia Woolf's work, taking into account biographical, aesthetic and feminist concerns and, ultimately, allowing the reader to return to the original texts. Volume one begins with friends' recollections of Virginia Woolf, then follows with obituaries, early critical views, connections between Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury and concludes with writers on Woolf's writing. Volume two concerns both early and current responses to Woolf's sketches and short stories, the two "Common Readers", the feminist treatises "A Room of One's Own" and "Three Guineas" and the three biographies "Orlando", "Flush" and "Roger Fry". Volume three contains essays arranged chronologically on the five novels from "A Voyage Out" to "To The Lighthouse" with the largest focus on "Mrs Dalloway" and "To The Lighthouse". Volume four assesses the novels from the last decade of Woolf's life from "The Waves" (1931) to "Between the Acts" (1941). It also includes a selection of modern critical evaluations from the 1960s through the early 1990s and a selection on Woolf's literary relation to her predecessors, contemporaries and successors.
