Virginia Woolf
Modernist novelist and essayist
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist and a leading modernist writer. In A Room of One’s Own she wrote about women and fiction.
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British Born 1882 in London, United Kingdom Died 1941
About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882 to 1941) was born in London and became a member of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of writers and artists. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917 the couple founded the Hogarth Press, which published much of her work. She rose to prominence between the two world wars with novels such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando. She helped pioneer stream of consciousness narration, and her books have been translated into more than 50 languages. A Room of One’s Own (1929) is a book-length essay that contains her well-known claim that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write fiction. She followed it with Three Guineas in 1938.