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The Years

by Virginia Woolf

First published 1937

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The Pargiter family is followed at intervals from 1880 to the 1930s as a Victorian household disperses across London, the empire and Europe. Deaths, marriages, careers and estrangements are set against suffrage activism, the First World War, air raids and the altered social freedoms of the interwar years. By returning to different generations rather than a single protagonist, Woolf shows how domestic customs, housing, gender roles and family authority change over time. The novel functions as a modern historical family saga, connecting private memory with the transformation of British society across more than half a century.

Historical Periods

Victorian London1837–1901 CE

Genres

Historical Sagas Social & Domestic Fiction

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