![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her pageant is, at first, fairly conventional but then she starts to mock some of the local values and ends by having the cast holding up mirrors to the audience to point out their foibles. Miss La Trobe, the author and director of the pageant, is just one of many slightly disjointed characters. The pageant – an annual event to raise money for the church – is nominally a condensed history of England. The theme is the staging of a village pageant on the grounds of Pointz Hall, owned by an old English family the Olivers. It takes place on single day in June 1939, a time which, of course, in hindsight, is fairly significant. However, it is still a fascinating novel. Though she wrote it and rewrote it, this was probably not the version she would have published had she lived. This was Woolf’s last novel and published after her death. Home » England » Virginia Woolf » Between the Acts Virginia Woolf: Between the Acts ![]()
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