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On a single day of June, 1939--with the war imminent but virtually unperceived--the action takes place at Pointz Hill, an English country house. It revolves about a pageant played upon the lawns...
- Background
- Introduction
- William Dodge
Woolf began writing Between the Acts between 1939 and 1940 while she and her husband Leonard were dividing their time between their home in Mecklenburg Square, central London, and Monk’s House in Rodmell, East Sussex. After an air raid in October 1940 damaged the couple’s London residence, Woolf continued drafting her novel in her writing room in t...
This lecture discusses characterisation in Between the Acts in the framework of Moi’s argument concerning androgyny, or (to translate the Greek coinage literally) male-femaleness. Moi states that in Woolf’s best-known novel, To the Lighthouse (1927), the portraits of Mr and Mrs Ramsay present androgyny as an ideal. She argues further that A Room of...
William is gay and an artist–a would-be painter. Mrs Manresa is interested in him because of his talent, but in this conservative community in the English countryside William is an outsider. He suffers from exclusion from the society to which he is unable by nature to conform. He makes social blunders, e.g. stops the conversation (pp. 41-42), and h...
Virginia Woolf’s classic modernist novel Mrs Dalloway (1925) is famously set over the course of just one day, in June 1923. But what is less well-known is that Woolf wrote a second novel also set on just one day: her last novel, Between the Acts (1941).
Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf. It was published shortly after her death in 1941. Although the manuscript had been completed, Woolf had yet to make final revisions.
- Virginia Woolf
- 1941
Mar 23, 2016 · Virginia Woolf wrote Between the Acts shortly before she died and against a backdrop of turmoil and war. Today, her final novel is one of her least-known – and most striking.
Dive deep into Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
Between the Acts is the final novel written by English author Virginia Woolf. It was first published in 1941, shortly after her death. Set on a June afternoon in 1939, as the Second World War ramps up on the European mainland, it takes place at a country estate called Pointz Hall and focuses on the production of an annual pageant and play that ...
