Biography of Documentary : Virginia Woolf

 Biography of Documentary : Virginia Woolf .

Her biographer starts by explaining that Virginia Woolf suffered all her life from

 physical pains and could only find comfort in sleep.

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 When Virginia Woolf thought it was time to start writing her memoirs, she wrote that

 she could remember colours and sounds from her childhood, but not many people.

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 Fortunately, she was born after the Victorian era and she did not have to suffer from the

 restraints associated with that time.

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 Virginia Woolf always complained about the unfair treatment of women in British

 society because they were mistreated by their husbands.

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 Virginia Woolf went to university at the turn of the century.

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 Virginia Woolf lost her mother at an early age and that marked the beginning of her

 mental illness because she could not get a grip on reality.

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 Multiple-choice questions:

 There is a scene in the novel entitled Mrs Dalloway that can be said to be biographical:

 o When the main character is getting ready for the party and looking at herself in

 the mirror, thinks “this is my life!”

 o When the main character imagines holding her life in front of her like a baby

 and walking towards her parents, says “this is my life!”

 o When the main character is taking care of her baby, looking and smiling at him,

 and thinks “this is my life!”

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 Virginia Stephens got married to Leonard Woolf in 1912. This event triggered off even

 more mental breakdowns on Virginia’s part. When she was institutionalised, she started

 writing because she was provided with pen and paper. She underwent a total

 transformation at these moments, becoming cruel to the people she loved most.

 Virginia published her first novel in 1915, when she was 21. It is entitled Voyage Inside A

 Mind and deals with her childhood and the loss of her mother.

 Fill in the gaps:

 In her novels, she rarely attempted to describe people’s relationships, but rather what

 they did not say to each other, what was in their minds. This has come to be known as

 the _________________________________, which is described in the documentary as “the body

 language without the ________________________”.

 Fill in the gaps:

 The Stephen family moved to ________________________ in 19__. This area in central London

 was then considered as a place where _____________________________________________________.

 Their house soon became a meeting point for artists, writers, intellectuals who were all

 ________________________ from Cambridge university. Their main objective was to discuss

 the nature of ________________________, and in the process they had to do without the

 conventions of the times. Virginia Woolf herself wrote that everything was new,

 everything was on trial, they only wanted to ________________________ artistic activities. This

 enterprise was judged as very bold.

 Two prominent members of her family then died, which left her very _____________________.