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'''Virginia Woolf'''
Née Adeline Virginia Stephen. 1882-1941. Writer, journalist, smoker. Married to [[Leonard Woolf]].




born 1882 as Adeline Virginia Stephen in London and died 1941 by committing suicide.
'''Sources'''


Bennett, Joan. ''Virginia Woolf. Her Art as a Novelist''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.


'''Her early life:'''
Bloom, Harold. ''Virginia Woolf''. Chelsea: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.
She had an intellectual background.


Stape, John Henry. ''Virginia Woolf. Interviews and recollections''. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.


'''Education:'''
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91c/chapter13.html
She studied Greek, Latin, German and History at King`s College London Ladie´s Department from 1897- 1901. There she got in contact with reformers of women´s higer education.


'''Her Works:'''
http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/
Bloomsbury Group
Novels: The Voyage Out (1915), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), The Waves (1931)
 
Virginia Woolf´s novels were considered experimental. She is also claimed to be the inventor of stream of conscoiousness, but she only developed it.

Latest revision as of 15:41, 19 October 2016

Née Adeline Virginia Stephen. 1882-1941. Writer, journalist, smoker. Married to Leonard Woolf.


Sources

Bennett, Joan. Virginia Woolf. Her Art as a Novelist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.

Bloom, Harold. Virginia Woolf. Chelsea: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.

Stape, John Henry. Virginia Woolf. Interviews and recollections. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91c/chapter13.html

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