Virginia Woolf

Born

in Kensington, Middlesex, England, The United Kingdom

January 25, 1882

Died

March 28, 1941

Website

http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/

Genre

Fiction, Essays

Influences

James Joyce, George Eliot, Lev Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, William Shake ...more

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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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	Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard (Foreword) 3.79 avg rating — 213,040 ratings — published 1925 — 1170 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To the Lighthouse 3.78 avg rating — 125,366 ratings — published 1927 — 1173 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Room of One's Own 4.15 avg rating — 109,570 ratings — published 1929 — 983 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 54,792 ratings — published 1928 — 264 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Waves 4.15 avg rating — 26,475 ratings — published 1931 — 537 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voyage Out 3.75 avg rating — 8,808 ratings — published 1915 — 546 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, Julia Briggs (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 7,728 ratings — published 1919 — 482 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jacob's Room 3.53 avg rating — 7,962 ratings — published 1922 — 602 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between the Acts 3.63 avg rating — 5,580 ratings — published 1941 — 272 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf (Editor) 4.26 avg rating — 4,011 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Virginia Woolf

The Diary of Virginia Woolf (5 books)
by

Virginia Woolf,

Anne Olivier Bell (Editor)

Andrew McNeillie (Assistant Editor)

4.37 avg rating — 2,820 ratings

The Letters of Virginia Woolf (6 books)
by

Virginia Woolf,

Nigel Nicolson (Editor)

Joanne Trautmann (Editor)

4.36 avg rating — 1,200 ratings

The Essays (6 books)
by

Virginia Woolf

4.26 avg rating — 207 ratings

Found on the Shelves (1 book)
by

Virginia Woolf (Contributor),

3.40 avg rating — 163 ratings

Collected Essays (4 books)
by

Virginia Woolf,

Andrew McNeillie (Editor)

4.13 avg rating — 93 ratings

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Quotes by Virginia Woolf

“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

tags: women

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“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

tags: freedom, women, writing

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

tags: books, metaphor, soul

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