Books like Virginia Woolf by Eileen Barrett

A contemporary day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a 1920s London politician’s wife, as she prepares for an evening party and is haunted by memories of youth, friendships, and past loves.

In *To the Lighthouse*, Virginia Woolf follows the Ramsay family as they spend a summer at their Scottish holiday home, exploring the depths of memory, longing, and the changing dynamics of adult relationships. The novel blends lyrical prose with a keen awareness of transience.

Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay argues for women writers’ rightful place in a patriarchal literary tradition, using both fictional narrative and lecture recordings.

Orlando follows a nobleman who, across centuries, changes gender and transcends time, exploring themes of sexuality, identity, and the fluidity of memoir.

Virginia Woolf’s *The Waves* traces seven friends from childhood to middle age, intertwining their social milestones with a lyrical exploration of inner consciousness, identity, and self‑actualization.

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s final novel, published posthumously in 1941, offers a psychological exploration of married life and English country homes, reflecting the author’s meticulous revisions and editorial process.

Night and Day follows Katharine Hilbery, granddaughter of a renowned Victorian poet, as she navigates love, family history, and the burgeoning Women’s Rights movement in early 20th‑century London.

Author of five volumes of poetry and lover of Marina Tsvetaeva, Sophia Parnok was the only openly lesbian voice in Russian poetry during the Silver Age of Russian letters. Parnok, however, was not a political activist, and she had no engagement with the feminism fashionable in young Russian intellectual circles. Yet, from a young age, she deplored all forms of male posturing and condescension and felt alienated from what she called "patriarchal virtues." Parnok's approach to her sexuality was equally forthright. Accepting lesbianism as her natural disposition, Parnok acknowledged her relationships with women, both sexual and nonsexual, to be the center of her creative existence. Diana Burgin's extensively researched life of Parnok is deliberately woven around the poet's own account, visible in her writings. Parnok's poems, translated here for the first time in English, added to a wealth of biographical material, make this book a fascinating and lyrical account of an important Russian poet.

An in‑depth study of Virginia Woolf’s literary contributions, drawn from her diaries, letters, and manuscripts.