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Virginia Woolf
English novelist Virginia Woolf, 1928.
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Also known as: Adeline Virginia Stephen
Quick Facts
- Original name in full:
- Adeline Virginia Stephen
- Died:
- March 28, 1941, near Rodmell, Sussex (aged 59)
- Notable Works:
- “A Room of One’s Own”
- “Between the Acts”
- “Flush”
- “Freshwater”
- “Jacob’s Room”
- “Kew Gardens”
- “Modern Fiction”
- “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”
- “Mrs. Dalloway”
- “Orlando”
- “The Art of Fiction”
- “The Common Reader”
- “The Common Reader: Second Series”
- “The New Biography”
- “The Pargiters: A Novel-Essay”
- “The Voyage Out”
- “The Waves”
- “The Years”
- “Three Guineas”
- “To the Lighthouse”
- Movement / Style:
- Modernism
- Notable Family Members:
- spouse Leonard Woolf
- father Sir Leslie Stephen
- sister Vanessa Bell
- Subjects Of Study:
- literature
- On the Web:
- Humanities LibreTexts - Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) (Dec. 11, 2024)
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Virginia Woolf (born January 25, 1882, London, England—died March 28, 1941, near Rodmell, Sussex) was an English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre. While she is best known for her novels, especially Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), Woolf also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing, and the politics of power. A fine stylist, she experimented with several forms of biographical writing, composed painterly short fictions, and sent to her friends and family a lifetime of brilliant letters. Born Virginia Stephen, she was the ...(100 of 4237 words)