ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to write for which publication?
A
The Time’s Literary Supplement
B
The Lady’s Home Journal
C
Strand Magazine
D
Reader Magazine
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Schooling: Woolf was educated by private tutors and by extensive reading of literary classics in her father’s library. Career: From 1905 woolf began to write for the Times Literary Supplement.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1915, she had published her first novel, The Voyage Out, through her half-brother’s publishing house, Gerald Duckworth and Company.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1904, Woolf began writing articles for money. She married Leonard Woolf in 1911, published her first novel, The Voyage Out in 1915.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mrs. Dalloway was published in Britain by the Hogarth Press on May 14, 1925 with a dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, and in the United States by Harcourt, Brace & Company on the same day, with the same dust jacket.

Detailed explanation-5: -(Wikimedia Commons) Along with Clive Bell, the artist and critic Roger Fry’s aesthetic ideas influenced Woolf’s works. Among Woolf’s acquaintances in Bloomsbury was the Jewish writer Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912.

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