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In this essay, I will look at Virginia Woolf’s engagement with visual media, paying particular attention to her illustrated novel Orlando: A Biography (1928) as well as to her theoretical writings. I will also situate Woolf in a complex feminist network, in which she acts as a connecting link between the past and the future in the history of image: from Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs to the cinema of Jacqueline Audry and Sally Potter. As I conclude, Woolf’s interest in both photography and film is inextricably intertwined with her revolutionary thoughts on biography and sexuality.
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This page is a summary of: Through the Lens of Virginia Woolf’s Feminism, April 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004732797_004.
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