Final Blog

It has already reached week 8? Crazy! It has been a very quick but great 8 weeks of class. This class was very organized and well put together. I really liked that. This was my very first online class, and if another crosses my path I will probably take it. I liked how we went through the different literature periods. We really focused on the different authors and their works. I actually enjoyed the essay. Crazy, I know! But it was great how you didn't use any sources except the work that you chose and your thoughts on the poem. It really made me use my brain! You really had to think deeply about the poem and figure out what you thought it was saying. I enjoyed the discussion posts each week. It really made you focus on different aspects of the works. This class also helped me become more computer literate! I had never done a blog before, and I think I have it down now. I've become more familiar with the different areas of different websites such as moodle, it's ambiguous, and turnitin. I've enjoyed this class and I hope that everyone else has as well. Thank you for a great 8 weeks!

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Stephen was born on Jan. 25, 1882 and died March 28, 1941. Woolf was an English author, feminist, essayist, publisher, and critic. She was one of the leaders in the literary movement of modernism. She was born the third child, into a comfortable upper middle class family. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912. Woolf suffered many nervous breakdowns. Her first nervous breakdown came after her mother's death. In 1941, after writing her last novel, Between the Acts, she feared the madness which she felt engulfing her again, filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse.

In her works, she used a technique called "stream of consciousness", revealing the lives of her characters by revealing their thoughts and associations. Her most famous novel was, "To the Lighthouse", which was written in 1927, examines the life of an upper middle class British family. It portrays the fragility of human relationships and the collapse of social values. Her most famous feminist/socialist/pacifist work was, "A Room of One's Own".