Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf was born in London into a distinguished upper-middle-class family of eleven children (both her parents had children from previous marriages). She was educated privately, and after the death of her father, she and her sister, the artist Vanessa Stephen Bell, became part of a literary and artistic circle of people who had been friends at Cambridge University. This group became known as the Bloomsbury Group. After marrying the writer Leonard Woolf in 1912, she launched her own career as a writer. She was a masterful stylist and an innovator who broke away from traditional conventions of characterization and plot. In 1905, she began a long association as a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement. Her novels include The Voyage Out (1915), Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), The Waves (1931), The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). She is also known for her essays, including A Room of One's Own (1928), followed by Three Guineas (1938), both of which are now regarded as classic statements of the feminist movement. Another collection of her essays is The Common Reader (1925 and 1932). "The Legacy" (1941), which appeared in The Haunted House (1944), was the last story Woolf completed before she committed suicide. Woolf is highly regarded as a novelist, and she is often ranked with James Joyce as a master stylist and major modernist fiction writer of the twentieth century. Author Links
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