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(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.
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on January 25, 1882, in London. Read more about her life.
The Measure of Life: Virginia Wolf's Last Year
Herbert Marder conceptualizes the last ten years of Virginia Woolf's life, focusing on her revolutionary works, which she created before committing suicide in 1941.
A Room of One's Own
Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882, Virginia Woolf learned early on that it was her fate to be "the daughter of educated men." In a journal entry shortly after her father's death in 1904, she wrote: "His life would have ended mine... No writing, no books: inconceivable." She expressed her concern about the position of women, especially...
Bloomsbury Group
The Bloomsbury Group was a group of artists and writers in the early 20th century. Ray Costelloe called them "very fascinating, queer, self-absorbed, fantastic set of people..." The group included: Vanessa (Stephen) Bell, Virginia (Stephen) Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, Adrian Stephen, Thoby Stephen, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, and E.M. Forster.
Mrs. Dalloway & Her Descendents
With the publication of "Mrs. Dalloway" in 1925, Virginia Woolf offered one of her greatest novels (some say the greatest) to the literary world. James Joyce's "Ulysses" had just been published in 1922. And, like "Ulysses," Woolf's novel followed the life of an ordinary person on an ordinary day.
Virginia Woolf - Manic Depressive Novelist
Adeline Virginia Stephen was born January 25, 1882 in London into a family of intellectual accomplishment and psychiatric disturbance. Although she received no formal schooling, exposure to her father's vast library, coupled with an innate ability to craft language and a vast energy, fueled Virginia's ambition to write from an early age.
'Virginia Woolf's Nose -- Essays on Biography' Review
The individual moments of a person's life are lost forever when one dies--all we often have left is a jumble of images and anecdotes, filtered through the perceptions and memories of family members, friends, and others. But, for a biographer, sifting through these mounds of contradictory life-time evidence reveals gaps and holes in any knowledge...
Stream of Consciousness
What is stream of consciousness? Read more about stream of consciousness.