Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Virginia Woolf, ‘Night and Day.’   Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - womens rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharines mother, Margaret, struggling to weave together the documents, events and memories of her own fathers life into a biography - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences. Virginia Woolfs delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a womans role and the very nature of experience.   Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.   During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of Ones Own (1929) with its famous dictum, a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, thought to have been the result of what is now termed bipolar disorder, and committed suicide by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.