To the Lighthouse - Woolf, Virginia
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In 1910, the young and passionate artist, Lily Briscoe, begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay and her youngest son, James. Initially discouraged, Lily spends ten years building the confidence to trust in her vision and finish her masterpiece. To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf¿s semi-autobiographical novel about family, the human experience, and the acceptance of all life has to offer good, bad and everything in between.

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In 1910, the young and passionate artist, Lily Briscoe, begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay and her youngest son, James. Initially discouraged, Lily spends ten years building the confidence to trust in her vision and finish her masterpiece. To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf¿s semi-autobiographical novel about family, the human experience, and the acceptance of all life has to offer good, bad and everything in between.
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist. Born in London, she was raised in a family of eight children by Julia Prinsep Jackson, a model and philanthropist, and Leslie Stephen, a writer and critic. Homeschooled alongside her sisters, including famed painter Vanessa Bell, Woolf was introduced to classic literature at an early age. Following the death of her mother in 1895, Woolf suffered her first mental breakdown. Two years later, she enrolled at King's College London, where she studied history and classics and encountered leaders of the burgeoning women's rights movement. Another mental breakdown accompanied her father's death in 1904, after which she moved with her Cambridge-educated brothers to Bloomsbury, a bohemian district on London's West End. There, she became a member of the influential Bloomsbury Group, a gathering of leading artists and intellectuals including Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell, E.M. Forster, and Leonard Woolf, whom she would marry in 1912. Together they founded the Hogarth Press, which would publish most of Woolf's work. Recognized as a central figure of literary modernism, Woolf was a gifted practitioner of experimental fiction, employing the stream of consciousness technique and mastering the use of free indirect discourse, a form of third person narration which allows the reader to enter the minds of her characters. Woolf, who produced such masterpieces as Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), and A Room of One's Own (1929), continued to suffer from depression throughout her life. Following the German Blitz on her native London, Woolf, a lifelong pacifist, died by suicide in 1941. Her career cut cruelly short, she left a legacy and a body of work unmatched by any English novelist of her day.