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Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf


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


Her early life: She had an intellectual background.


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 higer education.

Her Works: 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.