Rent What Was Virginia Woolf Afraid Of? (2019)
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0h 50min
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- Synopsis:
Considered one of the 20th century's most influential writers and the pioneer of 'stream of consciousness' writing, the life of Virginia Woolf is explored in this insightful new documentary. Drawing upon key biographers and literary critics, the programme seeks to understand a remarkable creative life. After abuse as a child and the death of her mother when she was 13, Virginia Woolf was troubled by breakdowns and suicide attempts from an early age. But increasingly from 1915 onwards, when she published her first novel 'The Voyage Out', Virginia Woolf maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays, letters, diaries and biography. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press. She was a founder member and at the centre of what was to become the Bloomsbury Group and wrote the classic novels 'Mrs. Dalloway', 'Orlando', 'To the Lighthouse' and 'The Waves'. Despite great success and critical acclaim, darkness haunted her. Compounded by the destruction of the First World War, yet helped by her pursuit of a working life free from the domination of a patriarchal, misogynist culture, she was unable to fully break free from it. Contributors Dame Hermione Lee, Dr Lyndall Gordon, Professor Edward Mendelsohn, Bill Goldstein and Professor Nicole Ward Jouve discuss Woolf's extraordinary life, including her affair with Vita Sackville West, her great creative achievement and her impact on both the literary and the modern world. - Actors:
- Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Vita Sackville West, Bill Goldstein, Dr. Lyndall Gordon, Professor Nicole Ward Jouve, Dame Hermione Lee, Professor Edward Mendelson
- Directors:
- Adrian Munsey, Vance Goodwin
- Producers:
- Adrian Munsey, Vance Goodwin
- Narrated By:
- Anna Wilson-Jones
- Studio:
- Odyssey
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Documentary, Special Interest
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