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Née Adeline Virginia Stephen. 1882-1941. Writer, journalist, smoker. Married to [[Leonard Woolf]]. | |||
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Née Adeline Virginia Stephen. 1882-1941. Writer, journalist, smoker. Married to Leonard Woolf.
Early life
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.
Education:
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:
Novels: The Voyage Out (1915), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), The Waves (1931). 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.