The General Strike

While we have focused on the context of the war and the ways in which it effected the environment in which To the Lighthouse was produced, this is by far not the only major political occasion of the time. The war-time atmosphere provided a focusing element to the context provided, but also important was the actions of the General Strike, which was ocurring as Woolf composed To the Lighthouse. Much research has been done on this subject by the scholars behind Woolf Online. To read more about the general strike, visit Woolf Online's collection of artifacts related to the strike.