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By Esther Lombardi, About.com Guide to Classic Literature since 2000

Virginia Woolf: Lost Essay Found

Wednesday August 11, 2004
Virginia Woolf: The Measure of Life(1882-1941) British writer. Virginia Woolf was part of the Bloomsbury Group. Her works include: "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925), "Jacob's Room" (1922), "To the Lighthouse" (1927), and "The Waves" (1931). Read more about the life and works of Virginia Woolf.

Now, a long-lost essay from Virginia Woolf has been rediscovered. According to " The Guardian," one of six essays written by Woolf in 1931 was lost, and "has only just been rediscovered." In the essay, Woolf writes, "What happens in the back half of the drawing-room which looks upon the gardens of other houses is often a matter of considerable conjecture. But it is with the front drawing-room that we are here concerned; for Mrs Crowe always sat there in an armchair by the fire; it was there that she had her being; it was there that she poured out tea." Read the complete essay, and then find out more about Woolf: Read more about Virginia Woolf.

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