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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.

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-'''Early life'''
+'''Sources'''
-She had an intellectual background. Her father was Leslie Stephen, her sister [[Vanessa Bell]] was to become a painter. After the death of her father Virginia Stephen moved to Bloomsbury, where she became a member of the [[Bloomsbury Group]].
+Bennett, Joan. ''Virginia Woolf. Her Art as a Novelist''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.
-'''Education:'''
+Bloom, Harold. ''Virginia Woolf''. Chelsea: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.
-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 higher education.
-'''Works:'''
+Stape, John Henry. ''Virginia Woolf. Interviews and recollections''. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.
-Novels: ''The Voyage Out'' (1915), ''Mrs Dalloway'' (1925), ''To the Lighthouse'' (1927), ''Orlando'' (1928), ''The Waves'' (1931).
+http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91c/chapter13.html
-Countless essays and newspaper articles on literature and culture. Very influential are ''A Room of One's Own'' (1929), an extended essay on women and women's writing.
-Virginia Woolf´s novels were considered experimental, but, in contrast to James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' (1922) more accessible. Although she did not invent the [[stream of consciousness]], she experimented with it and finetuned its form.
+http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/