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: 3.87 · 1,465,427 ratings · 113,394 reviews · 1,849 distinct worksSimilar authors
Mrs. Dalloway

3.78 avg rating — 355,911 ratings — published 1925 — 478 editions
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A Room of One’s Own

4.22 avg rating — 259,697 ratings — published 1929 — 1377 editions
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To the Lighthouse

3.81 avg rating — 214,331 ratings — published 1927 — 5 editions
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Orlando

3.87 avg rating — 114,807 ratings — published 1928 — 1265 editions
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The Waves

4.14 avg rating — 53,469 ratings — published 1931 — 141 editions
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Flush

3.88 avg rating — 14,454 ratings — published 1933 — 423 editions
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Jacob's Room

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3.52 avg rating — 13,532 ratings — published 1922 — 1391 editions
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The Voyage Out

3.75 avg rating — 12,240 ratings — published 1915 — 927 editions
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Night and Day

3.76 avg rating — 10,096 ratings — published 1919 — 8 editions
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Between the Acts

3.61 avg rating — 8,944 ratings — published 1941 — 396 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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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 1921, 194 pages, Group read: 2015
 
  115 votes, 32.9%

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892, 297 pages, Group read: 2014
 
  86 votes, 24.6%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1882, 311 pages, Group read: 2011
 
  64 votes, 18.3%

Paradise Lost by John Milton, 1667, 453 pages, Group read: 2012
 
  57 votes, 16.3%

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 1951, 560 pages, Group read; 2012
 
  28 votes, 8.0%

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