Virginia Woolf documentary

[@lolakatkin]

I find it unacceptable that the sexual abuse of Woolf by both her older half brothers is barely mentioned… and when it is mentioned it is not called abuse, but is couched in the words “sexual advances”. Her childhood was not happy, and her continual struggle with psychological problems, in part due to the emotional absence of her parents, but also to this abuse, which apparently according to her diaries lasted for several years. “Woolf was sexually abused by her two older half-brothers. The abuse was extremely traumatic, and lasted several years.” (scientific Research website). I do not see how you can make a proper programme about such a person without understanding the centrality of this information.

[@HarrietGraceCatchpole]

Well said

[@patriciawond4382]

What a gem! It's so difficult to find quality programmes such as this on today's TV channels. I never knew the history of Virginia Woolf's life. Thanks for posting.

[@Bvcggdert]

Ditto!!!

[@andycam4645]

A great documentary, well-enunciated, and supported by an interesting selection of photos and film footage. Well done!

[@mrsapplez2007]

The fact I am not competing with back ground music is joyful

[@sharinaross1865]

Thanks for making this available. So kind of you.

[@peterjgeraghty]

Excellent documentary! Thank you.

[@stevenfranks3131]

This is an amazingly detailed and, sometimes, painfully intimate portrait of Virginia Woolf.

[@lauraray611]

That’s part of her beauty, the intimate pains that she shared in her writings.

[@rachael3050]

We're so fortunate to have access to meds, therapy and people to reach out to, internet wise. Back in those days, how very lonely and how difficult it was.. To think that she had to deal with this mental illness.

[@Ajay_the_invincible_1997]

Thank you for this documentary 💯🙏 It was like going back to that period.

[@jenniferradema2785]

Your research is fantastic ! Great job !

[@giaatta9303]

Love your well researched channel. Thank you

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

🙏🙏 And thank you for being here

[@voyaristika5673]

I'm enjoying this channel's videos because they tell the life stories of well known writers, most of whose lives I knew very little or nothing. Thanks!

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Thank you and welcome to the channel!

[@vanessamay3689]

Me too 😊

[@sanneholm2010]

Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful documentary :-) I enjoyed it so much. Greetings to you from Denmark.

[@Nate1975]

She’s the queen of the longest sentences ever. Reading it right now

[@JuneBarbone]

😂😂 have you heard Russell Brand!?! He can stuff a sentence with a million words.. excellent vocabulary as well..some times I think he wants to use every word he knows, in a sentence.

[@Nate1975]

@@JuneBarbone he aren’t Virginia Woolf 😂

[@standup2982]

@@JuneBarbonehe’s a predator.

[@tigerauge6705]

Thank you for this great documentary!! Virginia Wolf is one of my absolute Favorit writer!!❤

[@saved_by_grace75]

Sexual advances? By her father and her brother and the narrator calls it "sexual advances". It was straight up rape and sexual abuse. Call it what it was!

[@HarrietGraceCatchpole]

100%

[@tom6693]

There's an inaccuracy just over 2 minutes into this biography. Showing a photograph of Virginia's mother, Julia Jackson Duckworth Stephen, the narrator informs us that she was the sister of Julia Margaret Cameron, the famous Victorian photographer. who took the picture. But that's not the case. Julia Stephen was Julia Cameron's niece, the daughter of Julia Cameron's sister Maria Pattle , who married John Jackson. This is not an auspicious way to begin.

[@aanonymousamanda1711]

How about the rest of it? Should I trust this documentary?

[@Clubsandwich2]

Leonard is an unsung hero.

[@Julia0R]

💯

[@CrimesAgainstArtt]

I love the dry dullness of his voice. The undertone of bland British sarcasm is brilliant as well. ❤

[@carollynnberwindscheffler398]

As an American I grew up among the Brits on Mallorca. U hit the nail on the head in your description of British humor.. love it ,love them.

[@lindsayhengehold5341]

Love Virginia Woolf and her works like Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando, etc. She wrote such beautiful poems as well.

[@nikanix2558]

Наверное, их лучше читать на английском? Переводы всегда хуже 🥺

[@joansavage1857]

This was so interesting! Thank you…

[@lesleymcshanemitchell9651]

Thank you it was a wonderful review of her life

[@lindamorrison4285]

Thank you i enjoyed this immensely, very interesting.

[@captgray2000]

Boy, have times changed. I appreciate this documentary very much. Thanks.

[@beblader9]

Fascinating author.

[@Mrs.Currie]

She was so amazing, there is no writer who compares... Someone said, "If you love Virginia Woolf, try Nettie Magnan. "...but she only has one novel... I think I'll reread Virginia Woolf's 'Night and Day' soon. The only one I haven't read... 🖤

[@supunsandika5455]

Mr. Leonard Woolf has Worked my village in Sri Lanka. Now his office is Museum.

[@AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor]

How interesting! What is it that he was doing there?

[@urex1717]

If I were forced to pick a single narrator, it would be this one.

[@carolthomas8528]

Would you ? He doesn’t know how to pronounce Keynes .

[@barrymoore4470]

An elegant, informative portrait of this eminent artist, though I think the program would have been enriched by more attention given to the literature itself, its language and themes. I was also puzzled by the omission of 'Mrs Dalloway' in the citation of works, this having been published before 'To the Lighthouse', and not infrequently cited as readers' favorite novel by Woolf. Lastly, a few minor inconsistencies were noted, one being that Mary Anne Evans Cross (whose professional alias was George Eliot), mentioned at 3:56, had died in 1880, two years before Virginia's birth, hence could never have personally known her. Also, the surname for Toby Stephen is incorrectly given as "Stephens" at 13:04, and Little Talland is misspelled as "Tallend" at 21:22. Still, overall quite a helpful and engaging introduction to this vital twentieth-century writer. Edited to observe that the Wikipedia entry for Virginia Woolf has the spelling for her brother's name to be Thoby (full name Julian Thoby Stephen).

[@Sharon_Mc]

Brilliant video. Thank you. I've visited Rodmell and Charlston.

[@charlottedurden2050]

I love both too

[@mitzicrowder2186]

Thank you beautiful story telling.Your vice is very pleasant

[@raymondhummel5211]

Very interesting documentary.

[@bewareofpigeons]

Fascinating evocation of the time and of the 'Bloomsberries'. Two requests: Ronald Firbank and William Gerhardie...

[@M4monica1]

thank you for this but next s. t. coleridge documentary please please 🙏

[@gloriavaldez3754]

I never knew VW This is indeed an excellent documentary.

[@nolala5629]

Excellent documenntary! Virginia was a brilliant woman!

[@AdCreative-ik7dg]

A great documentary, much thanks ❤️

[@JCPJCPJCP]

This documentary is too short and ends, alas, abruptly. It doesn't pay enough attention to her novels. But it's very well written, and the narrator is among the best I've ever heard. I've listened to it thrice the past few days while out walking in some grim winter weather, and next, I will watch it. 😊 Leonard deserves respect and appreciation for caring for her so well. Thanks again, Paul.

[@doreekaplan2589]

There is a fine comment just after yours. Check it out .

[@drcunda1]

Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what; Making a scene come right; Making a character come together. From this I reach what I might call a philosophy; At any rate it is a constant idea of mine; That behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; That we-I mean all human beings-are connected with this; That the whole world is a work of art; That we are parts of the work of art. 🕊️ Virginia Woolf

[@LarryMcLarnon]

Most informative and interesting..

[@enuclear]

Beautifully put together. An infelicity though at 25.40: Vanessa was married to Clive Bell - Quentin was one of Vanessa’s three children: the others being Angelica Garnett and Julian.

[@AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor]

thanks for clarification! I noticed the mistake but wasn't aware how the children were named.

[@Montaigne1533]

Really want to listen to this - but the music is just too loud. It’s a pity as I really enjoy such videos.

[@samzhou5191]

Such a beautiful male voice and narration! I wish that I could hear such a voice every day!

[@patrikwright2658]

What an entertaining bio.well spoken with good pics.thanks

[@paolazuffinetti]

Very interesting documentary. Thanks. Wish I had met You, Ginia! So refined and truly intellectual!

[@charlottedurden2050]

Please Could you do Katherine Mansfield one day? You do them so well. Thank you.

[@MOHAMEDAZZA2000]

Could you provide a documentary about Kate Chopin, thank you!

[@shukufavaliyeva7494]

great thanks from Azerbaijan, Baku👏🏼

[@rowancrew2934]

I enjoyed this emensly Thankyou.

[@musocub]

Very similar to an earlier video of Virginia Woolf

[@raulbotero982]

Excelent video

[@connievino4226]

Excellent thanks.

[@calebburrows5224]

thanks for this. this vid was quite insightful

[@Shyfren]

YES! Love it

[@Shyfren]

Beautifully done, superb, and a few photos I’ve never seen. Thank you so much!

[@carolmurray187]

The overbearing music interfered with this otherwise interesting piece.

[@katiamarin9425]

So kind of you

[@maroulio2067]

beautiful documentary- thank you

[@bethelshiloh]

Hmmm. It just occured to me that my husband’s grandmother was a Woolf (spelled that way).

[@franklinstephen3268]

Hello 👋 how are you doing?

[@mariaamparocatala2506]

Traducir castellano!!! Por favor

[@tontoujours3517]

Great video, could you possibly link your sources? Thanks🙂

[@spacecowgurl57]

Love it!! ❤🎉 You brought her life as marginal yet highlighted ❤

[@JamesGoetzke]

She left a suicide note. I read it years ago in college. She could stand the madness. So sad.

[@jenniferbattiglia4237]

Is this Roy Dotrice?

[@rehanahmedbukhari8425]

It is a really informative documentary about Virginia Woolf.

[@lindaedward3169]

Annoying music yet again .. what is the point .. it detracts from the dialogue 😢

[@learnersdisciple9950]

Virginia Woolf is my all-time crush. The way she wrote makes me yearn to be her. . .or just a part of her.

[@nikanix2558]

Красиво сказано ❤

[@denisehall4818]

Thanks.

[@ThirzaLynetteClarke-ku9dq]

I understand what you went through Virginia and being sensitive and depressed life long is unbearable. But you made use of your gift in spite of it.

[@TheSapphire51]

She looks haunted as a young woman.

[@franklinstephen3268]

Hello how are you doing?

[@markhooper4532]

Winnie Wallace.....The piano playing in the background is so annoying...

[@christineduffy3113]

Very interesting she had a sad life in a lot of ways

[@allieeverett9017]

I am Autistic. I wondered, after listening to this particular story, if perhaps she was also on the spectrum. It's just a thought and I pray no one takes offense to the speculation...

[@Research0digo]

Very well done, thank you too, for sharing this with us here. Mental illness is a bitch.

[@edwardmacnab354]

i read leonard woolfs novel about a village in ceylon . I believe it is considered a classic in ceylon . It was quite good actually . It is so sad that pearl buck won the nobel prize in literature instead of Virginia Woolf. I would call it an outrage to be frank ! And a travesty .

[@hossamhafez9826]

مريم فيرجينيا ❤ ..

[@joejackson6453]

Adorable Virginia ❤

[@valmid5069]

"What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands" --Virigina Woolf "Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person" --Ayn Rand

[@terry4137]

Love Ayn Rand

[@shadetreader]

Rand is trash.

[@candide1065]

XDDDDD

[@kimberknutson831]

Virginia Woolf is the very best. I am tired and don't have it now, but she is the very best. Not that it matters, but I am ABD on a PhD that I chose not to complete when I decided that I did not want to spend the rest of my life in the "Ivory Tower of Academia." I am considered an authority on "The Novel" as an art form. My favorite novel is To The Lighthouse. Obvs. Duh. : ) 💚 I am so tired. Thank you, Virginia. God, I love you.

[@carolthomas8528]

Keynes is pronounced “ Canes “ .

[@peterchaloner2877]

Lose the music. Speak more loudly.

[@陳素芳-x7r]

Gooď

[@maryoleary5044]

There's the deserving and undeserving poor. Help the POORER MIDDLE CLASS and REAL WORKING CLASS WHO: APPRECIATE FREE EDUCATION/LIBRARIES/COUNCIL HOUSES/PARKS, etc.

[@EsteeWalts]

O yes give Leonard all the credits. Ridiculous of course. Men always men.

[@N1ghtl1ghtfr0stb1t3]

It turns out I’m related to her husbands side! My last name is Woolf! 🎉

[@catherinerosa-baker2937]

All I remember is, who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, or I'm thinking of something else

[@carollynnberwindscheffler398]

Im new to her work but she seemed an elitest in the worst way

[@tissamarasinghe8122]

හොදයි

[@BZandpower]

ABRUPT ENDING

[@andrewwerner2061]

Wow KZbin so greedy you are like you need the extra money

[@anairenemartinez165]

I did not know she tried suicide so often. The inside life!

[@mknels1299]

Great artists have pain period.

[@DominiquevonF]

We lived, u meant not the 7 servants?

[@lillianmcgrew217]

❤❤❤

[@Bluewolfdude]

I love you Virginia.

[@nightairy]

Also very sexist. To use words like frigidity in the 21st century is an abomination.

[@beachrose88]

Woolf sorry mispelled

[@Vic35102]

Virginia wolf Beautiful cbeautiful creative ahead of our think she was a lesbian but movie she was bi

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

I admit I haven't looked into her sexual preferences, but certainly ahead of our time

[@TheSapphire51]

Hardly the most important aspect of her character. Is people's sexuality no longer their own business. I will never understand people's obsession with other peoples sexuality.

[@maroulio2067]

@@TheSapphire51 thank you- then shouldn't heterosexual people have that description attached to their names,? M..a heterosexual writer ,etc. If not, then why do we hear, M.., a gay writer, etc.

[@TheSapphire51]

@@maroulio2067 well I don't disagree with you but why should we mention peoples sexual orientation in that context in the first place. What has it got to do with anything public. It is only relevant in private matters. As far as I am concerned it is the least interesting aspect of another person.

[@MarDelsol]

@@TheSapphire51 Well he shouldn't have said she was frigid in his documentary. She wasn't at all, she was just homosexual hence felt no desire for men. When a documentary says lies about someone it's only fair to set the record straight.

[@kennethgiles-nu9dk]

only the mentally ill know the living death of it

[@garymurphy4165]

at x2 speed this bearable

[@rachelsremedies2602]

It was rumored MS Wolf sleped with her stepbrother

[@mknels1299]

The lethal 'self pity', kills many....

[@clairenoon4070]

She had no self-pity whatsoever. She just experienced periods of mental illness. She had a glorious, full, productive and creative life.

[@laurettaleone6482]

The patriarchy filter in this documentary is blaring. ugh.

[@MarDelsol]

It's a pity as the video is beautiful but the commentary is just a succesion of misogynistic and homophobic lies that were spread about her.

[@candide1065]

@@MarDelsol cope, Karen.

[@MarDelsol]

Lmao i'd say cope incel but you are more the kind of person who takes guns to shoot schools. @@candide1065