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Virginia Woolf

Born

in Kensington, Middlesex, England

January 25, 1882

Died

March 28, 1941

Website

http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/

Genre

Fiction, Essays

Influences

James Joyce, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Walter Scott, James Joyce, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Anton Chekov, E.M. Forster, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Walter Pater...more

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(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist

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It is, probably, already too late to hope that someone will write a definitive history of Bloomsbury, that fascinating cultural milieu which formed itself around 1910, exercised its greatest influence during the twenties, and came to an end with the death of Virginia Woolf. There is an excellent account of the intellectual influences from which it was born in a posthumous essay by Maynard Keynes; for its later history we shall have to rely upon the memoirs of David Garnett, which are now appearing in England, and the journals of Virginia Woolf, of which “A Writer’s Diary” (Harcourt, Brace) is, we hope, only the first installment.

Bloomsbury was not a “school” in any literary sense—there is no common Bloomsbury style or subject—nor was it centered on any one salon, like the Holland House set of the nineteenth century, or the Garsington set, to which many of its members also belonged. It included novelists, critics, painters, college dons but, curiously, no important poet (if one counts Virginia Woolf as a novelist) or composer. Near

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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf
Portrait of Virginia Woolf by George Charles Beresford
Born	Adeline Virginia Stephen (1882-01-25)25 January 1882 Kensington, Middlesex, England
Died	28 March 1941(1941-03-28) (aged 59) Lewes, Sussex, England
Occupation	Novelist, essayist, publisher, critic
Nationality	British
Alma mater	King's College London
Notable works	Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves
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Adeline Virginia Woolf (;née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an Englishmodernist writer, essayist and feminist.^[2]^[3]

Childhood

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She was born into a well-known family. Her father, Leslie Stephen, was a Victorian scholar. Her mother, born in India, was a favourite model of the Preraphaelite artists. Her sister, Vanessa Bell, was a painter. She had two brothers; one of them, Thoby, died in 1906.

Her mother died when she was thirteen and four years later her half-sister Stella died. In these times Virginia sta