The Years

A powerful indictment of "Victorianism" and its values,'The Years', written in 1937 was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime.

'The Years' ex plores a rich variety of themes such as sex, feminism, family life, education and politics in english society from 1800 to the 1930s, as they affect one large middle-class London family, the Pargiters.

This definitive edition contains the original Hogarth Press text as overseen by the author, and a list of textual variants.

About the Author

Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. From 1915, when she published her first novel, THE VOYAGE OUT, Virginia Woolf maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays and biography. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1017 they founded the Hogarth Press. She suffered a series of mental breakdowns throughout her life, and on 28th March 1941 she committed suicide.