This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Night and Day by Virginia Woolf. She was plagued by mental health troubles throughout her life and committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59. Her best-known works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves. She was a pioneer of the literary movement of Modernism, wrote a variety of essays, short stories and novels, and founded her own publishing house with her husband in 1917. She was born in London in 1882 and died in Sussex in 1941. Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential figures of interwar English literature. Through these women, the novel explores issues relating to marriage, social class and the position of women in Edwardian society, and its reflections on identity remain relevant and thought-provoking today. It explores the social and romantic lives of two women: Katherine Hilbery, who is the granddaughter of a celebrated poet but is secretly fascinated by mathematics and astronomy and feels stifled by her privileged existence, and Mary Datchet, a women’s suffrage activist who comes to realize that she does not need a man to feel fulfilled. Night and Day is Virginia Woolf’s second novel. This clear and detailed 52-page reading guide is structured as follows: The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including class differences, women’s position in society and the search for a sense of identity. As she tries to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, struggling with the weight of history - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences.9782808018081 52 EBook Plurilingua Publishing This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Night and Day by Virginia Woolf. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. Its protagonist, Katharine Hilbery, is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future.
Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience. the writer feels her way into becoming the giantess she would be' Paris Review
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