【正文】 sentation of Gender Differences 25 The Origin of Woolfs Thoughts of Gender Differences and HerUnderstanding of Gender Differences 27The Influence of Woolf 9s Thoughts of Gender Differences Chapter Three Manifestations of Virginia Woolf9s Thoughts of Gender and GenderDifferences in To the Lighthouse 34 Manifestations of Woolf 9s Thoughts of Female in To the Lighthouse 34 The Role of an Ideal Woman Mrs. Ramsay 34 The Woman Image of the New Generation Lily Briscoe 39 Manifestations of Woolf Thoughts of Gender Differences in To theLighthouse 44 Significant Differences between Different Genders 46 Rational Mr. Ramsay and Emotional Mrs. Ramsay 46 Realistic Mr. Ramsay and Idealistic Mrs. Ramsay 48 Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay9s Different Aesthetic Appreciation 50 Virginia Woolf9s Thoughts of Gender Differences through Lily Briscoe...51 Lily Briscoe Female Consciousness 51 Lily Briscoe Way to Brightness and Hope 55Chapter Four Conclusion 59Bibliography 63Chapter One IntroductionA Brief Introduction to Virginia Woolf and Her Literary CareerVirginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on 25 January, 1882 in London. She 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. Dallowciy (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928) and the booklength essay A Room of One39。s Own (1929), with its famous dictum, UA woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction?（Woolf，2005a: 565).Both Woolf father and mother were well known: Julia Prinsep Stephen，her mother, was a beauty and served as a model for PreRaphaelite painters such as Edward BurneJohns。 and Sir Leslie Stephen, her father, was a notable author, critic and mountaineer. The young Virginia was educated by her parents in their literate and wellconnected household at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington. One thing worth mentioning, her parents had each been married previously and had been widowed, and, the household contained children from three marriages consequently. Julia had three children from her first husband Herbert Duckworth: George, Stella and Gerald Duckworth. Leslie had one daughter from his first wife Minny Thackeray: Laura Makepeace Stephen. Leslie and Julia had four children together: Vanessa, Thoby, Virginia and Adrian Stephen.Sir Leslie Stephen eminence as an editor, critic and biographer and his connection to William Thackeray (as he was the widower of Thackeray youngest daughter) meant that his children were raised in an environment filled with the influences of Victorian literary society. Julia Stephen was equally well connected. Descended from an attendant of Marie Antoinette, she came from a family of renowned beauties who left their mark on Victorian society as models for PreRaphaelite artists and early photographers. Supplementing these influences was the immense library at the Stephen house，from which Virginia and Vanessa (ultheir brothers, who were formally educated) were taught the classics and English literature.Yet it seems that Woolfs most vivid childhood memories were not of London but of St Ives in Cornwall, where the family spent every summer until 1895. Talland House, the Stephen summer home, looked out over Porthminster Bay. Memories of these family holidays and impressions of the landscape, especially the Godrevy Lighthouse, informed the fiction Woolf wrote in later years, most notably To the Lighthouse.The sudden death of her mother in 1895 when Virginia was 13 and that of her halfsister Stella two years later led to the first of Virginia several nervous breakdowns. The death of her father in 1904 provoked her most alarming collapse and she was briefly institutionalized. Her breakdowns and subsequent recurring depressive periods, as modern scholars (including her nephew and biographer, Quentin Bell) have suggested, were also induced by the sexual abuse she and Vanessa were subjected to by their halfbrothers, George and Gerald (which Woolf recalled in her autobiographical essays A Sketch of the Past and 22 Hyde Park Gate).After the death of their father and Virginia second nervous breakdown, Vanessa and Adrian sold 22 Hyde Park Gate and bought a house at 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury. Following studies at King5s College, Cambridge (DeSalvo, 1982: 103), Woolf came to know Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Rupert Brooke, Duncan Grant and Leonard Woolf, who together formed the nucleus of the intellectual circle known as the Bloomsbury Group.Virginia Stephen married writer Leonard Woolf in 1912, referring to him during their engagement as a enniless Jew? The couple shared a close bond The two also collaborated professionally in 1917 founding the Hogarth Press, which subsequently published Virginia novels along with works by . Eliot, Laurens van der Post and others.After pleting the manuscript of her last (posthumously published) novel, Between the Acts, Woolf fell victim to a depression similar to that which she had earlier experienced. The onset of World War II, the destruction of her London home during the Blitz and the coolreception given to her biography of her late friend Roger Fry all worsened her conditionshe was unable to work.On 28 March 1941, Woolf mitted suicide. She put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones，then walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself. Woolf body was not found until 18 April (Panken, 1987: 2602). Her husband buried her cremated remains under a tree in the garden of their house in Rodmell, Sussex. Throughout her life, Woolf was plagued by drastic mood swings. Though this instability greatly affected her social functioning, her literary abilities remained intact. Modern diagnostic techniques