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Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, which explores issues of class, gender and identity through two female characters. Katharine Hilbery is part of an affluent literary family but feels stifled by her situation and craves independence; consequently, she cannot help but envy her acquaintance Mary Datchet, who lives alone and campaigns for women’s suffrage.
Night and Day is Virginia Woolf’s second novel, and is more traditional in style than many of her later works. 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 inLewes, Sussex in 1941.Notable works:Mrs Dalloway (1925), novelTo the Lighthouse (1927), novelA Room of One’s Own (1929), essayVirginia Woolf is widely considered to be one of the most important writers of the 20th century. She is known for her experimental style, which is representative of literary modernism, and for her feminism.
Woolf wrote several works of fiction and non-fiction, which remain widely read, discussed and studied to this day. Her constantly evolving writing style made her an important figure of literary modernism. She experimented with writing techniques such as non-linear narratives and stream of consciousness (a literary style which attempts to depict the flow of a character’s thoughts as they occur instead of organising them in a logical or linear fashion). Woolf’s fiction and non-fiction explore issues such as the social reality of her society and how individuals experience it, as well as women’s place in society. Woolf can be described as one of the most influential feminist thinkers of the 20th century. Her essay A Room of One’s Own, in which she argues, among other things, for the need for women to be educated and to have financial freedom, is one example of her investigation of gender questions. Woolf’s feminism and her unique writing style have ensured her a place as an iconic figure.
NIGHT AND DAY
A LOVE STORY AND AN EXPLORATION OF SOCIAL CLASS, GENDER AND IDENTITY
Genre: novelReference edition: Woolf, V. (1992) Night and Day. London: Penguin Books.1stedition: 1919Themes: love, gender, social class, identity, social conventions, people’s inner worlds, perception of reality, limitations of languageNight and Day is Virginia Woolf’s second novel. It is written in a more traditional style than her later novels, in which she uses more experimental, modernistic literary devices. In fact, out of all Woolf’s novels, this one is the most classical stylistically.
The novel’s heroine, Katharine Hilbery, is a young upper-middle-class woman who has to find her voice, identity and place in her society. Her story is entangled with that of Mary Datchet, a young women’s rights activist, and with that of the two men whom she becomes romantically involved with, William Rodney, a would-be poet, and Ralph Denham, an intelligent young man who comes from a much less privileged background than Katharine. The novel explores the romantic feelings and the relationships of its different characters in form of a social comedy. Woolf investigates social conventions, identity and women’s place in society, as well as women’s quest to find their own voices, through the experiences of characters with different personalities and backgrounds.
