To The Lighthouse: An Introduction

[Marie]

To The Lighthouse

For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged.

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives, gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.

Virginia Woolf saw the novel as an elegy to her own parents, and in her diary she wrote: 'I used to think of him (father) and mother daily; but writing The Lighthouse laid them in my mind'.

*from the penguin modern classics edition

The Yellow Wallpaper

Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do.

*from the penguin little black classics


Reading Schedule for March 2017

Week of March 1 : The Window : Chapters 1 - 11
Week of March 8 : The Window : Chapters 12 - 19
Week of March 15 : Time Passes
Week of March 22 : The Lighthouse
Week of March 29 : The Yellow Wallpaper

[Piyumi]

Excellent :)..I just got the delivery of my copy of To the lighthouse....excited for March.

[Marie]

Piyumi wrote: "Excellent :)..I just got the delivery of my copy of To the lighthouse....excited for March."

I hope you enjoy it, Piyumi, I'm looking forward to your thoughts.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

I have just started. Liking the writing so far. :)

[Piyumi]

Carol ♔Type, Oh Queen!♕ wrote: "I have just started. Liking the writing so far. :)"

Me too, have always loved her writing :D

[Piyumi]

Oh my, please tell me, The Lighthouse in the novel, is it the famous Lighthouse on Isle of Skye? I was there on my last year of Uni, a road trip to Skye as a good my to good old Scotland.....I have a pic of the Lighthouse and the cliffs of the Atlantic on my desk at work.....oh! but is it?

[Linda]

Piyumi wrote: "Oh my, please tell me, The Lighthouse in the novel, is it the famous Lighthouse on Isle of Skye? I was there on my last year of Uni, a road trip to Skye as a good my to good old Scotland.....I have..."

No, her family visited an island in Cornwall.

[Piyumi]

Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote: "Piyumi wrote: "Oh my, please tell me, The Lighthouse in the novel, is it the famous Lighthouse on Isle of Skye? I was there on my last year of Uni, a road trip to Skye as a good my to good old Scot..."

Aah Okay, thanks :)

[Linda]

Piyumi wrote: "Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote: "Piyumi wrote: "Oh my, please tell me, The Lighthouse in the novel, is it the famous Lighthouse on Isle of Skye? I was there on my last year of Uni, a road tri..."

Sorry, lnow the feeling!

[Piyumi]

Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote: "Piyumi wrote: "Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote: "Piyumi wrote: "Oh my, please tell me, The Lighthouse in the novel, is it the famous Lighthouse on Isle of Skye? I was there on my last year of ..."

:D

[Linda]

quick question: are we reading just "The Yellow Wallpaper", or the entire collection?

[Marie]

Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote: "quick question: are we reading just "The Yellow Wallpaper", or the entire collection?"

Just The Yellow Wallpaper.

[Linda]

Marie wrote: "Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote: "quick question: are we reading just "The Yellow Wallpaper", or the entire collection?"

Just The Yellow Wallpaper."

Thanks! I can't believe that I'm actually caught up with the crowd, for once!