Click2Flicks - The Hours - Chapter 2 - Virginia Woolf

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>THE HOURS</i></p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 2 - VIRGINIA WOOLF</p></b></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">She was born “Adeline Virginia Stephen” on January 25, 1882. Her father, Sir <a href="http://www.talkingto.co.uk/ttvw/images/ttvw_port_2_ack.gif" target="_blank"><b>Leslie Stephen</b></a>, founded the <i>Dictionary of <a href="http://www.knowuk.co.uk/html/about_dnb.htm" target="_blank"><b>National Biography</b></a></i> and was absolutely devoted to Virginia’s mother, Julia Jackson Duckworth, his second wife.</p> <p>Virginia’s <a href="http://www.cygneis.com/woolf/related.htm" target="_blank"><b>mother</b></a> died when her daughter was only thirteen. By the time the soon-to-be-famous writer was <a href="http://www.depts.drew.edu/wmst/corecourses/wmst111/timeline_bios/woolf2.gif" target="_blank"><b>twenty-two</b></a>, her father was also dead. Two years later, the brother she adored - <a href="http://www.cygneis.com/woolf/gallery/thoby.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Thoby</b></a> - died of <a href="http://www.vdh.state.va.us/epi/typhusf.htm" target="_blank"><b>typhus</b></a>. The future writer had mental breakdowns likely due, at least in part, to all these deaths.</p> <p>In 1925, not long after the end of the first world war, Virginia released her novel <a href="http://www.diario.it/cnt/notizie/img/100personaggi/mrsdalloway.gif" target="_blank"><b><i>Mrs. Dalloway</i></b></a>. Using a “stream of consciousness” <a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35lerIMzCYH6wVpvinlyeoyryoOwOutJK9hRhhLqMM9aeqAeCmGhVPKuN3Eyu/Lutb8cX3V3ZlF6q1uFDJikwalv88GCuJRJ1AZyP5kya1CCoYkCY1bMxObPNMlXE/65055Mlr2pTfNoKmOLeUiQ5IdELWs1XWKtCUQHfEjoUvHxN9tCrBdV7Of3Ln" target="_blank"><b>style</b></a> that predates the <a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35lerXGH1aUylrQZ3az6mo/L+3xEjjBbMgbVrWbI8MDw+ClJsts3XeMLvI2RK/ttiadOY=" target="_blank"><b>works</b></a> of <a href="http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/pl/collections/joyce/" target="_blank"><b>James Joyce</b></a>, the novel (its working title was <i>The Hours</i>) revolutionized writing of fiction in the 20th century. It is also at the heart of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning story <a href="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1841150355.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank"><b><i>The Hours</i></b></a> and begins <a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35lerIMzCYH6wVpvinlyeoyryoSkE+XuC2wxJ5Jhu2/MNYLeMg+WjAhUjuXovipgOB8SPDd+Up09h9Mg3kr5JwVUl0AfJKK5DPgwSNBKItd0EmkeM9Tg92jR3CGSpOarbdjyxAV65LllU7qUr48VOwLjXZmmdcVNepOG29FJF+m19y++T8jsAvNcZo" target="_blank"><b>begins</b></a> with the famous first line:</p> <center><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.</i></b></font></center> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">Today, thanks to the BBC, we can still hear Virginia Woolf's voice - even though she died in 1941. In this <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/woolfv1.shtml" target="_blank"><b>audio clip</b></a>, recorded four years after <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i> was published, she gives her eulogy to words entitled, <i>Words Fail Me</i>. And in her <a href="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/015622030X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank"><b>letters</b></a> and <a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35lerOJfleHwk+As51bskE/xVvmwhRUNiq4wUkM9gIeXLYnRj8DfuBgONwyfRLeO37pDA=" target="_blank"><b>diaries</b></a>, we learn about her debilitating headaches and <a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/malcolmi/attacks1.htm" target="_blank"><b>bouts</b></a> of depression which interrupted her creative <a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35lepD0IcyHJDAnuCpzBI/bLEyWrWw1mLShTDSN+dxptotXIe2WxCC2ZqYUQfl31E/FpTCbujtvkaLS6kpydr38jW2G/jIPVrwTFMM9ROM2BX8GNk24zgDIR3GWcXDdXEnq2RfLHmseJ3XSr8IISwBuTbAiIrB4bhpBWiwVRb84P1Vak0474pkTenz" target="_blank"><b>work</b></a> and life with her husband, <a href="http://www2.truman.edu/~pgately/LeonardWoolfbyHenryLamb1912.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Leonard Woolf</b></a>.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="the_hours_ch1.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER </a>     <a href="the_hours_ch3.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>