Virginia Woolf - Wikipedia
WEBAdeline Virginia Woolf (/ w ʊ l f /; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Virginia Woolf | Biography, Books, Death, & Facts | Britannica
WEBApr 16, 2024 · Virginia Woolf, English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre. Best known for her novels Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, she also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing, and the politics of power.
Virginia Woolf - Quotes, Books & Life - Biography
WEBApr 2, 2014 · English author Virginia Woolf wrote modernist classics including 'Mrs. Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse,' as well as pioneering feminist texts, 'A Room of One's Own' and 'Three Guineas.'...
Virginia Woolf – Modernism Lab - Yale University
WEBVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist, essayist, biographer, and feminist. Woolf was a prolific writer, whose modernist style changed with each new novel. [1] Her letters and memoirs reveal glimpses of Woolf at the center of English literary culture during the Bloomsbury era.
What a New Virginia Woolf Biography Reveals About Her Life | TIME
WEBDec 17, 2019 · A new biography of Virginia Woolf looks at the impact of sexual abuse during her childhood and adolescence, and why this is relevant today.
Virginia Woolf Was More Than Just a Women’s Writer
WEBVirginia Woolf Was More Than Just a Women’s Writer. She was a great observer of everyday life. Virginia Woolf, that great lover of language, would surely be amused to know that, some seven decades after her death, she endures most vividly in popular culture as a pun—within the title of Edward Albee’s celebrated drama, Who’s Afraid of ...
Virginia Woolf - Modernist, Feminist, Novelist | Britannica
WEBWoolf solved biographical, historical, and personal dilemmas with the story of Orlando, who lives from Elizabethan times through the entire 18th century; he then becomes female, experiences debilitating gender constraints, and lives into the 20th century.
Virginia (stephen) Woolf | Encyclopedia.com
WEBJun 27, 2018 · One of the most prominent literary figures of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf is chiefly renowned as an innovative novelist. She also wrote book reviews, biographical and autobiographical sketches, social and literary criticism, personal essays, and commemorative articles treating a wide range of topics.
A Room of One's Own: Study Guide | SparkNotes
WEBOverview. Virginia Woolf ’s A Room of One’s Own published in 1929, is a groundbreaking essay that addresses the status of women in literature and society. The narrative is based on a series of lectures Woolf delivered at Newnham and Girton Colleges—then the two women’s colleges at Cambridge University—on the topic of “Women and Fiction.”
Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind | The New York Public Library
WEBNov 18, 2022 · Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind. This exhibition has closed. November 18, 2022–March 5, 2023. Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Wachenheim Gallery. Plan Your Visit. Fully Accessible. Virginia Woolf, 1902. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
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