To the Lighthouse

The following materials bring books to life and support both individual and group literature study. Use these resources to draw real-world connections, plan interdisciplinary lessons, inspire unique research projects, create enrichment activities, and support differentiated instruction.

• The Cambridge Companion to To the Lighthouse

This reader contains 13 essays by distinguished Woolf scholars analyzing the novel from a range of perspectives, including biographical, thematic, structural, and socio-historical.

• Talland House

Maggie Humm’s novel imagines Lily Briscoe’s life outside the pages of To the Lighthouse and beyond the setting of the Ramsay’s summer home, which is a fictional version of Talland House, Woolf’s childhood summer home in Cornwall.

• “In Search of Virginia Woolf's Lost Eden in Cornwall”

This New York Times article follows Virginia Woolf’s footsteps around St. Ives in Cornwall, providing historical sketches of the seaside town where Woolf vacationed as a child. The writer draws connections between Cornwall, Woolf, and Woolf’s fictional foray into her past in To the Lighthouse.

• Helpful Men: Defending Philip Roth, Dismissing Virginia Woolf

In this article from The Nation, Alysa Harad responds with scathing satire to fellow writer André Aciman’s belittling of Virginia Woolf, suggesting similarities between him and Woolf’s character