Virginia Woolf documentary

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight which included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where she studied classics and history and came into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement.
Virginia Woolf documentary
2011

[@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

[@Clubsandwichchav]

Leonard is an unsung hero.

[@Julia0R]

💯

[@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 😂

[@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.

[@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 .

[@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.

[@peterjgeraghty]

Excellent documentary! Thank you.

[@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.

[@jenniferradema2785]

Your research is fantastic ! Great job !

[@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.

[@Ajay_the_invincible_1997]

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

[@sanneholm2010]

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

[@tigerauge6705]

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

[@beblader9]

Fascinating author.

[@lesleymcshanemitchell9651]

Thank you it was a wonderful review of her life

[@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.

[@lindamorrison4285]

Thank you i enjoyed this immensely, very interesting.

[@Mrs.Dalloway-y9h]

Virginia's life was equal measures of tragic and wonderful. It is hard to live life as an intelligent and sensitive individual in any era, but in a time that didn't value women outside of in the role of wife and mother would have been particularly daunting. Thankfully she gave the world her remarkable works of literature and the insights that have stood the test of the passing years. Reply

[@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).

[@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!

[@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.

[@mitzicrowder2186]

Thank you beautiful story telling.Your vice is very pleasant

[@musocub]

Very similar to an earlier video of Virginia Woolf

[@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... 🖤

[@paolazuffinetti]

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

[@carolmurray187]

The overbearing music interfered with this otherwise interesting piece.

[@bethelshiloh]

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

[@franklinstephen3268]

Hello 👋 how are you doing?

[@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!

[@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 .

[@rowancrew2934]

I enjoyed this emensly Thankyou.

[@connievino4226]

Excellent thanks.

[@JamesGoetzke]

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

[@TheSapphire51]

She looks haunted as a young woman.

[@franklinstephen3268]

Hello how are you doing?

[@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.

[@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...

[@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 ❤

[@raulbotero982]

Excelent video

[@Research0digo]

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

[@markhooper4532]

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

[@denisehall4818]

Thanks.

[@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.

[@mariaamparocatala2506]

Traducir castellano!!! Por favor

[@jenniferbattiglia4237]

Is this Roy Dotrice?

[@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

[@catherinerosa-baker2937]

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

[@carolthomas8528]

Keynes is pronounced “ Canes “ .

[@carollynnberwindscheffler398]

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

[@benzandpour]

ABRUPT ENDING

[@anairenemartinez165]

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

[@陳素芳-x7r]

Gooď

[@mknels1299]

Great artists have pain period.

[@peterchaloner2877]

Lose the music. Speak more loudly.

[@EsteeWalts]

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

[@andrewwerner2061]

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

[@nightairy]

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

[@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.

[@lillianmcgrew217]

❤❤❤

[@yumakeigo9094]

Another made up story

[@garymurphy4165]

at x2 speed this bearable

[@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

[@lissettesbloom8223]

I always will say it, people need Jesus for true peace.

[@rabbitss11]

American, perhaps?

[@jakecavendish3470]

By… Virginia… Woolf. Right, that’s done. OK! I’ve rolled my cigarette. Written Mrs. Dalloway. What do I need to do now? Come on V, think! Get your A into G.

[@zaftra]

could only get through 10 minutes of this highly prejudice documentary for of unsubstantiated bias.

[@beachrose88]

the Wolfe girls were so abused

[@prerza]

so glad i found this 🫶🏻

[@candide1065]

XDDD

[@traigounregalo]

Sick father

[@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?

[@giaatta9303]

Love your well researched channel. Thank you

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

🙏🙏 And thank you for being here

[@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 🥺

[@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 😊

[@raymondhummel5211]

Very interesting documentary.

[@sharinaross1865]

Thanks for making this available. So kind of you.

[@joansavage1857]

This was so interesting! Thank you…

[@bewareofpigeons]

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

[@samzhou5191]

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

[@MOHAMEDAZZA2000]

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

[@Montaigne1533]

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

[@shukufavaliyeva7494]

great thanks from Azerbaijan, Baku👏🏼

[@charlottedurden2050]

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

[@Sharon_Mc]

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

[@charlottedurden2050]

I love both too

[@rehanahmedbukhari8425]

It is a really informative documentary about Virginia Woolf.

[@spacecowgurl57]

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

[@captgray2000]

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

[@lindaedward3169]

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

[@tontoujours3517]

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

[@AdCreative-ik7dg]

A great documentary, much thanks ❤️

[@patrikwright2658]

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

[@tissamarasinghe8122]

හොදයි

[@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.

[@hossamhafez9826]

مريم فيرجينيا ❤ ..

[@Bluewolfdude]

I love you Virginia.

[@LarryMcLarnon]

Most informative and interesting..

[@katiamarin9425]

So kind of you

[@maroulio2067]

beautiful documentary- thank you