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弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫1882.1.25 伍尔夫出生于英国伦敦，肯辛顿，海德公园门（Hyde Park Gate）22号，原名弗吉尼亚·斯蒂芬（Adeline Virginia Stephen）。父亲莱斯利·斯蒂芬爵士（Leslie Stephen）是维多利亚时代出身于剑桥的一位著名的文学评论家、学者和传记家。母亲是Julia Prinsep Jackson Stephen。父母亲在结婚前都曾有过一次婚姻，父亲与前妻有一個女儿Stella，母亲与前夫有三个孩子。父母结合后又生下四个孩子：Vanessa, Thoby, 伍尔夫和Adrian。伍尔夫在家接受教育。
1895.5 母亲Julia去世，伍尔夫第一次精神崩溃。
1904年2月，伍尔夫的父亲去世。5月，伍尔夫第二次精神崩溃，并试图跳窗自杀。
1904年末和Vanessa, Thoby, Adrian搬到布卢姆斯伯里的戈登广场46号（46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury）。12月14日，弗吉尼亚在《卫报》上第一次发表作品——一篇未署名的书评。后出版了第一批散文，并开始经常性地为《时代文学增刊》（《Times Literary Supplement》）写书评，同时在一间在职成人夜校Morley College任教。Thoby的‘Thursday Evenings’宣告布卢姆斯伯里组织（Bloomsbury Group）的成立，伍尔夫是其中的主将。
著名的布卢姆斯伯里团体——一个知识精英的沙龙，其核心成员有：作家伦纳德·伍尔夫（弗吉尼亚的丈夫），艺术批评家克莱夫·贝尔（范妮莎的丈夫），传记作家利顿·斯特雷奇，文学批评家德斯蒙德·麦卡锡，经济学家约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯，画家邓肯·格兰特，艺术批评家罗杰·弗莱，作家福斯特。除此之外，哲学家罗素、诗人T.S.艾略特、小说家亨利·詹姆斯和奥尔都斯·赫胥黎也与布卢姆斯伯里团体过从甚密。这些“欧洲的金脑”多半是剑桥大学的优秀学子。弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫能与这样一批知识精英切磋文学和艺术，无疑是十分幸运的。这个团体不仅给予她友谊、智慧和信心，还将自由平等的精神灌输到她的心灵深处；她的文学创作由此别开生面，更加注重精神含量。
布卢姆斯伯里团体的成员曾经以大胆的举动，挑战现存的社会秩序和国家机器。 1910年2月10日，弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫假扮阿比西尼亚的门达克斯王子，她弟弟亚德里安假扮她的翻译，贺拉斯·科尔假扮英国外交部官员，邓肯·格兰特等人假扮成弗吉尼亚的随从，前往韦默斯访问英国海军的“无畏号战舰”，得到了热情盛礼的接待。整个设计得天衣无缝，完全将舰队司令威廉·梅伊蒙在鼓里。这个天大的玩笑后来经报纸披露出来，国防力量的虚有其表和官僚体制的空具其壳遂引起朝野震惊，英界和外交界顿时陷入了极度的尴尬。伍尔夫确实是个好演员，许多传记作家对她的这场“王子秀”津津乐道，因为那简直就像一个神话。布罗姆斯伯里团体在第一次世界大战期间自然解散，到1920年，大部分成员才又聚集起来，另组为“记忆俱乐部”，以绝对的坦诚为原则回忆各自的人生经历，伍尔夫对两位同母异父哥哥禽兽之行的揭露和控诉即始于此时。
1912.8.10 伍尔夫与作家、费边社员、社会评论家伦纳德·伍尔夫结婚。
对于自己的婚姻，弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫曾大犯踌躇。她就像自己的小说《到灯塔去》里的莉丽，尽管认为爱情宛如壮丽的火焰，但因为必须以焚弃个性的“珍宝”为代价，因此视婚姻为“丧失自我身份的灾难”。一个女人抱持这样悲观的看法，又是在三十岁的“高龄”上才开始构筑“二人空间”，其困难是可想而知的。
然而事后证明，弗吉尼亚的忧虑纯属多余，倒是她的心理症结落下的性恐惧和性冷淡，使婚姻生活从一开始就走上了歧路。
伦纳德毕业于剑桥大学，饶有文才，深具眼力，与其说他欣赏弗吉尼亚的娴雅风度，毋宁说他倾慕弗吉尼亚的超凡智慧。在他眼里，弗吉尼亚是只可远观不可亵玩的“智慧的童贞女”，在她身上完全不粘附世俗的色彩。应该说，起初，伦纳德心有不甘，他抱着幻想，认为自己能像王子唤醒睡美人那样唤醒弗吉尼亚体内的性意识。几经努力，徒劳无功之后，他创作小说《智慧的童贞女》，借用男主人公哈里· 大卫的口吻谴责了冷血的女人，认为“那些长着白皮肤和金色头发的苍白的女人……是冰冷的，同时也使人冰冷”，他的这些心怀不忿的说辞（近乎指桑骂槐）无疑对弗吉尼亚的自尊构成了深深的伤害。弗吉尼亚婚后的“精神雪崩”给伦纳德适时地敲响了警钟，他决定从此认命，转而追求精神之爱这一更高远的境界。他这样做，仅需一条理由——“她是个天才”——就足够了。弗吉尼亚的感激之情也溢于言表，她明确地宣布伦纳德是自己生命中隐藏的核心，是她创造力的源泉。 1930年，弗吉尼亚告诉一位朋友，没有伦纳德，她可能早就开枪自杀了。弗吉尼亚能以多病（而且是精神病）之身取得非凡的文学成就，伦纳德可谓居功至伟。
在弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的小说中，异性之间总有一条难以逾越的鸿沟，倒是女性之间感情能水乳交融，《出航》中的雷切尔与姨母海伦，《夜与日》中的凯瑟琳与玛丽，《达洛卫夫人》中的克拉丽莎与萨利，《到灯塔去》中的莉丽与拉姆齐夫人，都能达至心灵的默契。
英国女作家曼斯菲尔德和薇塔都是伍尔夫的闺中密友，如果说她与同病相怜的曼斯菲尔德只是心心相印，那她与薇塔的关系则带有浓厚的性爱色彩。现代批评家邦德指出：“在她们的罗曼史最活跃的岁月里，受到她对薇塔的爱情的哺育，最伟大的文学杰作《到灯塔去》、《奥兰多》和《海浪》从弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的金笔下流淌出来。”而随着弗吉尼亚与薇塔之间的爱情趋于平淡，她生命中点石成金的创作盛期（1922 ——1933）即宣告终结。
弗吉尼娅.伍尔夫把艺术看得高于一切。不过，她每完成一部作品常会出现病兆，性格多变的她经常在脸上折射出内心的痛苦。唯一值得庆幸的只是她的每一场发病，都有丈夫伦纳德在身边无微不至的照料，这无疑带给弗吉尼娅极大的鼓励和感动，“要不是为了他的缘故，我早开枪自杀了。”当疯癫和幻听等精神分裂的症状重复来袭，最终不堪忍受时，她还是想到了自杀，在给伦纳德的遗言中她这样写到：“我不能再毁掉你的生活了。我想，两个人不可能比我们一向更开心了。”
1941年3月28日， 英国作家V-伍尔夫夫人以悲剧形式结束自己的生命。她投水自尽，迫使她免于再次受精神分裂和疯狂的折磨。
主要著作有：风格独特的长篇“意识流小说”《达洛威夫人》、《到灯塔去》，《奥兰多》，《自己的房间》和《海浪》等。
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Early life
Photographic portrait of Julia Stephen, mother of Woolf, by Julia Margaret Cameron.
Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882. Her mother, a renowned beauty, Julia Prinsep Stephen (born Jackson) (1846–1895), was born in India to Dr. John and Maria Pattle Jackson and later moved to England with her mother, where she served as a model for Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Edward Burne-Jones. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a notable historian, author, critic and mountaineer. The young Virginia was educated by her parents in their literate and well-connected household at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington. Her parents had each been married previously and been widowed, and, consequently, the household contained the children of three marriages. Julia had three children from her first husband, Herbert Duckworth: George Duckworth, Stella Duckworth, and Gerald Duckworth. Her father was married to Minny Thackeray, and they had one daughter: Laura Makepeace Stephen, who was declared mentally disabled and lived with the family until she was institutionalized in 1891. Leslie and Julia had four children together: Vanessa Stephen (1879), Thoby Stephen (1880), Virginia (1882), and Adrian Stephen (1883).
Sir Leslie Stephen's eminence as an editor, critic, and biographer, and his connection to William Thackeray (he was the widower of Thackeray's youngest daughter), meant that his children were raised in an environment filled with the influences of Victorian literary society. Henry James, George Henry Lewes, Julia Margaret Cameron (an aunt of Julia Stephen), and James Russell Lowell, who was made Virginia's honorary godfather, were among the visitors to the house. Julia Stephen was equally well connected. Descended from an attendant of Marie Antoinette, she came from a family of renowned beauties who left their mark on Victorian society as models for Pre-Raphaelite artists and early photographers. Supplementing these influences was the immense library at the Stephens' house, from which Virginia and Vanessa (unlike their brothers, who were formally educated) were taught the classics and English literature.
Julia Prinsep Stephen portrayed by Edward Burne-Jones, 1866
According to Woolf's memoirs, her most vivid childhood memories, however, were not of London but of St. Ives in Cornwall, where the family spent every summer until 1895. The Stephens' summer home, Talland House, looked out over Porthminster Bay, and is still standing today, though somewhat altered. Memories of these family holidays and impressions of the landscape, especially the Godrevy Lighthouse, informed the fiction Woolf wrote in later years, most notably To the Lighthouse.
The sudden death of her mother in 1895, when Virginia was 13, and that of her half-sister Stella two years later, led to the first of Virginia's several nervous breakdowns. She was, however, able to take courses of study (some at degree level) in Greek, Latin, German and history at the Ladies’ Department of King’s College London between 1897 and 1901, and this brought her into contact with some of the early reformers of women’s higher education such as Clara Pater, George Warr and Lilian Faithfull (Principal of the King’s Ladies’ Department). Her sister Vanessa also studied Latin, Italian, art and architecture at King’s Ladies’ Department.
The death of her father in 1904 provoked her most alarming collapse and she was briefly institutionalized. Her breakdowns and subsequent recurring depressive periods, modern scholars (including her nephew and biographer, Quentin Bell) have suggested, were also influenced by the sexual abuse she and Vanessa were subjected to by their half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth (which Woolf recalls in her autobiographical essays A Sketch of the Past and 22 Hyde Park Gate).
Throughout her life, Woolf was plagued by periodic mood swings and associated illnesses. Though this instability often affected her social life, her literary productivity continued with few breaks until her suicide.
Bloomsbury
The Dreadnought Hoaxers in Abyssinian regalia; Virginia Woolf is the bearded figure on the far left
After the death of their father and Virginia's second nervous breakdown, Vanessa and Adrian sold 22 Hyde Park Gate and bought a house at 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury.
Woolf came to know Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Rupert Brooke, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Duncan Grant, Leonard Woolf and Roger Fry, who together formed the nucleus of the intellectual circle of writers and artists known as the Bloomsbury Group. Several members of the group attained notoriety in 1910 with the Dreadnought hoax, which Virginia participated in disguised as a male Abyssinian royal. Her complete 1940 talk on the Hoax was discovered and is published in the memoirs collected in the expanded edition of The Platform of Time (2008). In 1907 Vanessa married Clive Bell, and the couple's interest in avant garde art would have an important influence on Virginia's development as an author.
Virginia Stephen married writer Leonard Woolf in 1912. Despite his low material status (Virginia referring to Leonard during their engagement as a "penniless Jew") the couple shared a close bond. Indeed, in 1937, Woolf wrote in her diary: "Love-making — after 25 years can’t bear to be separate... you see it is enormous pleasure being wanted: a wife. And our marriage so complete." The two also collaborated professionally, in 1917 founding the Hogarth Press, which subsequently published Virginia's novels along with works by T.S. Eliot, Laurens van der Post, and others. The Press also commissioned works by contemporary artists, including Dora Carrington and Vanessa Bell.
The ethos of the Bloomsbury group discouraged sexual exclusivity, and in 1922, Virginia met the writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West, wife of Harold Nicolson. After a tentative start, they began a sexual relationship that lasted through most of the 1920s. In 1928, Woolf presented Sackville-West with Orlando, a fantastical biography in which the eponymous hero's life spans three centuries and both genders. It has been called by Nigel Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West's son, "the longest and most charming love letter in literature." After their affair ended, the two women remained friends until Woolf's death in 1941. Virginia Woolf also remained close to her surviving siblings, Adrian and Vanessa; Thoby had died of an illness at the age of 26.
Work
Woolf began writing professionally in 1900, initially for the Times Literary Supplement with a journalistic piece about Haworth, home of the Brontë family. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915 by her half-brother's imprint, Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd.
This novel was originally entitled Melymbrosia, but Woolf repeatedly changed the draft. An earlier version of The Voyage Out has been reconstructed by Woolf scholar Louise DeSalvo and is now available to the public under the intended title. DeSalvo argues that many of the changes Woolf made in the text were in response to changes in her own life.
Lytton Strachey and Woolf at Garsington, 1923.
Woolf went on to publish novels and essays as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published through the Hogarth Press. She has been hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost modernists.
Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English language. In her works she experimented with stream-of-consciousness and the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters. Woolf's reputation declined sharply after World War II, but her eminence was re-established with the surge of Feminist criticism in the 1970s.
Her work was criticised for epitomizing the narrow world of the upper-middle class English intelligentsia. Some critics judged it to be lacking in universality and depth, without the power to communicate anything of emotional or ethical relevance to the disillusioned common reader, weary of the 1920s aesthetes. She was also criticized by some as an anti-semite, despite her being happily married to a Jewish man. This anti-semitism is drawn from the fact that she often wrote of Jewish characters in stereotypical archetypes and generalizations, including describing some of her Jewish characters as physically repulsive and dirty. The overwhelming and rising 1920s and 30s anti-semitism possibly influenced Virginia Woolf. She wrote in her diary, "I do not like the Jewish voice; I do not like the Jewish laugh." However, in a 1930 letter to the composer, Ethel Smyth, quoted in Nigel Nicolson's biography,Virginia Woolf, she recollects her boasts of Leonard's Jewishness confirming her snobbish tendencies, "How I hated marrying a Jew- What a snob I was, for they have immense vitality." In another letter to her dear friend Ethel Smyth, Virginia gives a scathing denunciation of Christianity, seeing it as self-righteous "egotism" and stating "my Jew has more religion in one toe nail--more human love, in one hair." Virginia and her husband Leonard Woolf actually hated and feared 1930s fascism with its anti-semitism knowing they were on Hitler's blacklist. Her 1938 book Three Guineas was an indictment of fascism.
Virginia Woolf's peculiarities as a fiction writer have tended to obscure her central strength: Woolf is arguably the major lyrical novelist in the English language. Her novels are highly experimental: a narrative, frequently uneventful and commonplace, is refracted—and sometimes almost dissolved—in the characters' receptive consciousness. Intense lyricism and stylistic virtuosity fuse to create a world overabundant with auditory and visual impressions.
The intensity of Virginia Woolf's poetic vision elevates the ordinary, sometimes banal settings - often wartime environments - of most of her novels. For example, Mrs Dalloway (1925) centres on the efforts of Clarissa Dalloway, a middle-aged society woman, to organize a party, even as her life is paralleled with that of Septimus Warren Smith, a working-class veteran who has returned from the First World War bearing deep psychological scars.
To the Lighthouse (1927) is set on two days ten years apart. The plot centers around the Ramsay family's anticipation of and reflection upon a visit to a lighthouse and the connected familial tensions. One of the primary themes of the novel is the struggle in the creative process that beset painter Lily Briscoe while she struggles to paint in the midst of the family drama. The novel is also a meditation upon the lives of a nation's inhabitants in the midst of war, and of the people left behind. It also explores the passage of time, and how women are forced by society to allow men to take emotional strength from them.
Orlando (1928) has a different quality from all Virginia Woolf's other novels suggested by its subtitle, "A Biography", as it attempts to represent the character of a real person and is dedicated to Vita Sackville-West. It was meant to console Vita for being a girl and for the loss of her ancestral home, though it is also a satirical treatment of Vita and her work. In Orlando the techniques of historical biographers are being ridiculed; the character of a pompous biographer is being assumed in order for it to be mocked.
The Waves (1931) presents a group of six friends whose reflections, which are closer to recitatives than to interior monologues proper, create a wave-like atmosphere that is more akin to a prose poem than to a plot-centered novel.
Her last work, Between the Acts (1941) sums up and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: the transformation of life through art, sexual ambivalence, and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation—all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative encompassing almost all of English history. This book is the most lyrical of all her works, not only in feeling but in style being chiefly written in verse.
While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by G.E. Moore, among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
Her works have been translated into over 50 languages, by writers of the calibre of Jorge Luis Borges and Marguerite Yourcenar.
Suicide
After completing the manuscript of her last (posthumously published) novel, Between the Acts, Woolf fell victim to a depression similar to that which she had earlier experienced. The onset of World War II, the destruction of her London home during the Blitz, and the cool reception given to her biography of her late friend Roger Fry all worsened her condition until she was unable to work.
On 28 March 1941, Woolf committed suicide. She put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, then walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself. Woolf's skeletonised body was not found until 18 April 1941. Her husband buried her cremated remains under an elm in the garden of Monk's House, their home in Rodmell, Sussex.
In her last note to her husband she wrote:
“ I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V. ”
Modern scholarship and interpretations
Recently, studies of Virginia Woolf have focused on feminist and lesbian themes in her work, such as in the 1997 collection of critical essays, Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings, edited by Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer. Controversially, Louise A. DeSalvo reads most of Woolf's life and career through the lens of the incestuous sexual abuse Woolf suffered as a young woman in her 1989 book Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work.
Woolf's fiction is also studied for its insight into shell shock, war, class and modern British society. Her best-known nonfiction works, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), examine the difficulties female writers and intellectuals face because men hold disproportionate legal and economic power and the future of women in education and society.
Irene Coates's book Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf: A Case for the Sanity of Virginia Woolf holds that Leonard Woolf's treatment of his wife encouraged her ill health and ultimately was responsible for her death. This is not accepted by Leonard's family but is extensively researched and fills in some of the gaps in the traditional account of Virginia Woolf's life. Victoria Glendinning's book Leonard Woolf: A Biography, which is even more extensively researched and supported by contemporaneous writings, argues that Leonard Woolf was not only supportive of his wife but enabled her to live as long as she did by providing her with the life and atmosphere she needed to live and write. Accounts of Virginia's supposed anti-semitism (Leonard was atheist) are not only taken out of historical context but greatly exaggerated. Virginia's own diaries support this view of the Woolfs' marriage.
Though at least one biography of Virginia Woolf appeared in her lifetime, the first authoritative study of her life was published in 1972 by her nephew Quentin Bell.
In 1992, Thomas Caramagno published the book The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness."
Hermione Lee's 1996 biography Virginia Woolf provides a thorough and authoritative examination of Woolf's life and work.
In 2001 Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska edited The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Julia Briggs's Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life, published in 2005 is the most recent examination of Woolf's life. It focuses on Woolf's writing, including her novels and her commentary on the creative process, to illuminate her life. Thomas Szasz's book My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf (ISBN 0-7658-0321-6) was published in 2006.
Rita Martin’s play Flores no me pongan (2006) considers Woolf's last minutes of life in order to debate polemical issues such as bisexuality, Jewishness and war. Written in Spanish, the play was performed in Miami under the direction of actress Miriam Bermudez.
In films
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was an American play (1962) by Edward Albee and film (1966) directed by Mike Nichols (screenplay by Ernest Lehman adapted from the play). Virginia Woolf does not appear as a character. According to the playwright, the title of the play — which is about a dysfunctional university married couple — refers to an academic joke about "who's afraid of living life without false illusions".
* Virginia Woolf is a character in the film The Hours (2002). For her portrayal of Woolf, actress Nicole Kidman won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Bibliography
See also: Bibliography of Virginia Woolf
Novels
* The Voyage Out (1915)
* Night and Day (1919)
* Jacob's Room (1922)
* Mrs Dalloway (1925)
* To the Lighthouse (1927)
* Orlando (1928)
* The Waves (1931)
* The Years (1937)
* Between the Acts (1941)
Short story collections
* Monday or Tuesday (1921)
* A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944)
* Mrs Dalloway's Party (1973)
* The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)
"Biographies"
Virginia Woolf published three books to which she gave the subtitle "A Biography":
* Orlando: A Biography (1928, usually characterised Novel, inspired by the life of Vita Sackville-West)
* Flush: A Biography (1933, more explicitly cross-genre: fiction as "stream of consciousness" tale by Flush, a dog; non-fiction in the sense of telling the story of the owner of the dog, Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
* Roger Fry: A Biography (1940, usually characterised non-fiction, however: "[Woolf's] novelistic skills worked against her talent as a biographer, for her impressionistic observations jostled uncomfortably with the simultaneous need to marshall a multitude of facts.")
Non-fiction books
* Modern Fiction (1919)
* The Common Reader (1925)
* A Room of One's Own (1929)
* On Being Ill (1930)
* The London Scene (1931)
* The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)
* Three Guineas (1938)
* The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)
* The Moment and Other Essays (1947)
* The Captain's Death Bed And Other Essays (1950)
* Granite and Rainbow (1958)
* Books and Portraits (1978)
* Women And Writing (1979)
* Collected Essays (four volumes)
Drama
* Freshwater: A Comedy (performed in 1923, revised in 1935, and published in 1976)
Autobiographical writings and diaries
* A Writer’s Diary (1953) - Extracts from the complete diary
* Moments of Being (1976)
* A Moment's Liberty: the shorter diary (1990)
* The Diary of Virginia Woolf (five volumes) - Diary of Virginia Woolf from 1915 to 1941
* Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 (1990)
* Travels With Virginia Woolf (1993) - Greek travel diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Jan Morris
* The Platform of Time: Memoirs of Family and Friends, Expanded Edition, edited by S. P. Rosenbaum (London, Hesperus, 2008)
Letters
* Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters (1993)
* The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888-1941 (six volumes, 1975–1980)
* Paper Darts: The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf (1991)
Prefaces, contributions
* Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of George Gissing ed. Alfred C. Gissing, with an introduction by Virginia Woolf (London & New York, 1929)