To The Lighthouse NOTES

Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse [Notes] SETTING The novel is set on an island in the Hebrides (a group of islands off the West Coast of and belonging to Scotland) at the Ramseys's vacation house. The novel is set in a ten year period, with the first section (and the bulk of the action) taking place in one day before the war, a middle period in which all action takes place "off stage" during the …

…explored the connections between personal time and longer duration’s of time in The Years (1937) and in Between the Acts (1941). Woolf also wrote a great many essays in the 1930s, the most famous of which is A Room of One's Own, in which she explores the special difficulties of writing as a woman in a patriarchal culture that insists that women are not intellectual beings. Another long essay is Three Guineas (1938). In 1941, Woolf committed suicide.