Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Which famous works were published in the Hogarth Press?

Katherine Mansfield’s Prelude

TS Eliot’s The Wasteland (1923)

Woolf was a part of which influential literary group?

The Bloomsbury Group

In which work did Woolf established a fictional ‘Outsiders Society’?

Three Guineas

What is the major theme in most of Virginia Woolf’s works?

Inner life of characters shaped by external social reality

Which work of Woolf’s is written in episodic form where the main character is defined through other characters’ impressions?

Jacob’s Room (1922)

What is the duration of Mrs Dalloway (1925)?

A day in June, 1923

Themes of post-war trauma in Mrs Dalloway is represented through which character?

Septimus Warren Smith

Name the three sections of To the Lighthouse (1927)

1. The Window

2. Time Passes

3. To the Lighthouse

Lily Briscoe makes a post impressionistic portrait of Mrs Ramsey in shape of?

A purple triangle

Which work of Woolf is called an “anti-novel” for satirising the conventional historical biographies?

Orlando: A Biography (1928)

Which is Woolf’s longest novel?

The Years (1937) - attack on Victorianism

Which work of Woolf is an all encompassing narrative of English History?

Between the Acts (1911)

In which critical essay has Woolf called Bennett & Galsworthy as “materialists”?

Modern Fiction

The preface of which collection of essays has a quote by Dr. Johnson?

The Common Reader (1925)

A room of one’s own (1929) features a work by which contemporary novelist of Woolf?

‘Life’s Adventure’ - Mary Carmichael

Which work is a sequel to A Room of One’s own (1939) and that is also called a “novel-essay”?

Three Guineas

In which work has Woolf famously attacked the Victorian idea of “angel in the house”?

Professions for Women

“Nothing stays, all changes. But not word, not paint.”

Lily Briscoe in ‘To the Lighthouse’ (1927)

“Three years is a long time to leave a letter unanswered…”

Three Guineas (1938)

“Killing the angel of the house was part of the occupation of the woman writer.”

The Death of Moth and other Essays (1942)

“On or about 1910, human nature changed.”

Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1923)