![]() ![]() Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Books, 2005, xlviii.) (Source: Mark Massey, “Introduction,” To the Lighthouse. To the Lighthouse is also an extended meditation on the relationship between art and life, and on late Victorian family structures. ![]() Ramsay and Prue’s deaths in To the Lighthouse).īut, Woolf herself got fed up with critics who insisted on reading the Ramsays as direct representations of the Stephens (Stephen was Woolf’s maiden name). And the sudden deaths of her mother and her sister Stella left her in deep mourning (echoes of Mrs. Ramsay squeezes the life out of his children. To the Lighthouse takes on some elements of Woolf’s own life: she felt stifled by her father in much the same way that Mr. ![]() In our opinion, Woolf is totally at her best here, as she engages with her ongoing themes of memory, family, and fiction. Published in 1927, To the Lighthouse is sandwiched between Virginia Woolf’s other two most famous novels, Mrs. ![]()
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