Flush by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis) E-Book

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Flush by Virginia Woolf, which tells the story of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s beloved spaniel. Through his eyes, we see the key episodes in Barrett Browning’s life, including notably her courtship with and subsequent marriage to Robert Browning, and gain an outsider’s view of the inequality (in terms of both gender and social class) that pervades Victorian society. Woolf is widely considered to be one of the most significant English-language writers of the 20th century; her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and Orlando, and the essays A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas.

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VIRGINIA WOOLF

ENGLISH WRITER

Born in London in 1882.Died in Lewes in 1941.Notable works:Mrs Dalloway (1925), novelTo the Lighthouse (1927), novelThe Waves (1931), novel

Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephens and spent her childhood in South Kensington in London. Although she did not receive any formal schooling, she did have access to her father’s substantial library and associated with a wide circle of intellectuals, in particular from the University of Cambridge, where her brothers were students. After her father’s death, Virginia moved to Bloomsbury with her sister Vanessa. She married Leonard Woolf in 1917 and the couple established the Hogarth Press, which published the majority of Woolf’s novels. From 1915 until her death, Woolf produced nine novels, the most critically acclaimed being Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). These works are considered seminal texts of literary modernism, and demonstrate the experimentation with form and content characteristic of the movement. Woolf also wrote short stories and was a prolific essayist, diarist and letter writer. Throughout her life she was dogged by bouts of poor mental health and eventually committed suicide at the age of 59.

FLUSH

CANINE BIOGRAPHY

Genre: novelReference edition: Woolf, V. (1998) Flush. Oxford: Oxford University Press.1stedition: 1933Themes: dogs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Victorian society, women’s issues

Exhausted by the intellectual challenge of The Waves (1931), Woolf wrote Flush as light relief. Flush was a cocker spaniel owned by the celebrated Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). Thus, although the novel is ostensibly the story of Flush’s life, it gives an account of key periods and events in Barrett Browning’s own life, through the perspective of her dog. Woolf drew on letters written between Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband, Robert Browning (1812-1889), who, like his wife, was a highly respected poet.

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