A background of Woolf's early life and her continued social and historical consciousness throughout her life.
Eide, Marian. "The Stigma of Nation': Feminist Just War, Privilege, and Responsibility." Hypatia; Spring, 2008, Vol. 23 Issue 2. 48-60.
Author draws her thesis from the title of one of Woolf's works, and discusses the feminist position on war, exclusion, and "just war."
Froula, Christine. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
An excellent discussion of Woolf and her views on war, including her interaction with groups opposing and writing about war and society.
Hollander, Rachel. "Novel Ethics: Alterity and Form in 'Jacob's Room'." Twentieth Century Literature; Spring, 2007, Vol. 53 Issue 1. 40-66.
Discusses Woolf's novel in terms of "gender, urbanism, and war" while reflecting on the differences between modernist and Victorian writings.
Kramer, Jerome V. "The Woolf Pack: Michael Cunningham's the Hours Put the Spotlight on One Virginia Woolf Novel, but Don't Overlook the Others." Book May-June, 2003: 26+.
Discusses the remake of the book "The Hours,"...
"Beyond the Politics of Emancipation: Utopianism and Radical (Im)possibilities in Virginia Woolf." LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory; July, 2005, Vol. 16 Issue 3. 333-357.
Comments on Woolf's political thought, including the "politics of transformation; Pessimism and disillusionment of Woolf with the aftermath of the World War I." A good insight into Woolf's state of mind about war at the time.
MacKay, Marina. "Putting the House in Order: Virginia Woolf and Blitz Modernism." Modern Language Quarterly; June, 2005, Vol. 66 Issue 2. 227-252.
Author creates a long discussion on the war on new social order after World War I in Great Britain. Includes the impact of Woolf's essay, "Three Guineas," written in 1938, regarding narrative and social thinking. Another good resource for the Second World War's influence on Woolf and her writings.
Mackay, Marina. "The Lunacy of Men, the Idiocy of Women: Woolf, West, and War." NWSA Journal; Fall, 2003, Vol. 15 Issue 3. 124-144.
Compares Woolf's work on war with Rebecca West, giving another glimpse into feminist views of war and writing.
