to the lighthouse -virginia woolf

The vast coastal county of Cornwall, England, had a profound effect on the future writing of the impressionable young girl who would become a literary star.

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To the lighthouse - virginia woolf

Virginia Woolf’s covers are unabashedly recognizable by virtue of the fact that they were all designed by her sister, Vanessa Bell.

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Described by Virginia Woolf herself as ‘easily the best of my books’, and by her husband Leonard as a ‘masterpiece’, To the Lighthouse, first published in 1927, is one of the milestones of Modernism. Set on the Isle of Skye, over a decade spanning the First World War, the narrative centres on the Ramsay family, andContinue reading →