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) 3.78 avg rating — 178,100 ratings — published 1923 — 671 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 3.77 avg rating — 103,948 ratings — published 1927 — 571 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 4.11 avg rating — 82,317 ratings — published 1929 — 182 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 3.86 avg rating — 43,470 ratings — published 1928 — 108 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 4.14 avg rating — 21,212 ratings — published 1931 — 41 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 3.76 avg rating — 7,665 ratings — published 1915 — 308 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 — 6,859 ratings — published 1919 — 270 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 — 6,774 ratings — published 1922 — 322 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 3.65 avg rating — 4,699 ratings — published 1941 — 162 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: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 3,524 ratings — published 1953 — 39 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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The Diary of Virginia Woolf (5 books)
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf (6 books)
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Nigel Nicolson (Editor)

Joanne Trautmann (Editor)

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The Essays (6 books)
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Found on the Shelves (1 book)
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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

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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