Virginia Woolf’s Bibliography

Virginia Woolf’s bibliography includes novels, short stories, and non-fiction books.

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

• Kew Gardens (1919)
• Monday or Tuesday (1921)
• A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944)
• Mrs Dalloway’s Party (1973)
• The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)
• “Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches” (2003)

“Biographies”

Virginia Woolf published three books to which she gave the subtitle “A Biography”:

• Orlando: A Biography (1928, usually characterized as a 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), reprinted in 2005 by Persephone Books
• Roger Fry: A Biography (1940, usually characterised as 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 marshal 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)

Comprehension

Are these statements true or false?

1. Virginia Woolf’s bibliography includes only novels and short stories. (…)
2. “Orlando: A Biography” is characterized as a purely fictional work. (…)
3. “The Common Reader: Second Series” is one of Virginia Woolf’s non-fiction works. (…)
4. “Freshwater: A Comedy” is a drama written by Virginia Woolf and performed in 1935. (…)
5. The complete diary of Virginia Woolf covers the period from 1915 to 1941. (…)