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Virginia Woolf
| born |
January 25, 1882
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| died |
March 28, 1941 |
| gender |
female |
| place of birth |
Kensington, Middlesex, England, The United Kingdom |
| website |
http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/
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| genre |
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, |
| influences |
[a:William Shakespeare|947|William Shakespeare|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1179017891p2/947.jpg], [a:Christina Rossetti|143178|Christina Rossetti|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1185595065p2/143178.jpg], [a:George Eliot|173|George Eliot|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1190493613p2/173.jpg], [a:Leo Tolstoy|128382|Leo Tolstoy|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1342945438p2/128382.jpg], [a:Marcel Proust|233619|Marcel Proust|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1189444962p2/233619.jpg], [a:Anton Chekhov|5031025|Anton Ch |
about this author
(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."
She committed suicide by filling her pockets with rocks and drowning in the Ouse River.
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