Grief-Work" in/and Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room and Anne Carson's Nox.

Jacob's Room (Book); Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941; Siblings in literature; Stephen, Thoby; Fiction; Literary criticism

A literary criticism of the book "Jacob's Room" by Virginia Woolf is presented. It outlines the main character's emotions toward her deceased sibling who died at the age of three. It also highlights how Woolf was devastated by the death in of her beloved brother Thoby Stephen, in 1906, at age 26 to typhoid fever, misdiagnosed for ten days as malaria.