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Virginia Woolf


Born
in Kensington, Middlesex, England
January 25, 1882

Died
March 28, 1941

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(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."
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Average rating: 3.88 · 1,565,038 ratings · 129,353 reviews · 2,144 distinct works • Similar authors
Mrs. Dalloway

3.77 avg rating — 379,713 ratings — published 1925 — 2249 editions
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A Room of One’s Own

4.22 avg rating — 286,368 ratings — published 1929 — 2374 editions
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To the Lighthouse

3.81 avg rating — 228,540 ratings — published 1927 — 1632 editions
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Orlando

3.87 avg rating — 124,566 ratings — published 1928 — 220 editions
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The Waves

4.14 avg rating — 57,669 ratings — published 1931 — 750 editions
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Flush

3.88 avg rating — 16,261 ratings — published 1933 — 406 editions
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Jacob's Room

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3.52 avg rating — 14,353 ratings — published 1922 — 1298 editions
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The Voyage Out

3.75 avg rating — 12,747 ratings — published 1915 — 986 editions
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Night and Day

3.76 avg rating — 10,541 ratings — published 1919 — 506 editions
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Between the Acts

3.60 avg rating — 9,393 ratings — published 1941 — 393 editions
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Quotes by Virginia Woolf  (?)
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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

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