Who is Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight which included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victoria...
Read Full Biography of Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf Poems

Read All Poems


Top 10 most used topics by Virginia Woolf




Virginia Woolf Quotes

Read All Quotes


Comments about Virginia Woolf

Clairestrickett: is there anything more difficult to write than the titles of personal emails? virginia woolf didn't have to title her letters, why must i
So_contrary: "i feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful […]" virginia woolf, the voyage out
Ariannoys: reading a virginia woolf book at the boygenius concert so julien baker wants me for how mysterious i am
Sabeenahmad1: and the poem , i think , is only your voice speaking . ~virginia woolf , the waves
Ethel_baraona: i was born on virginia woolf’s passing day.
Read All Comments


Write your comment about Virginia Woolf


Poem of the day

Charles Baudelaire Poem
Spleen III
 by Charles Baudelaire

Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux,
Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très-vieux,
Qui, de ses précepteurs méprisant les courbettes,
S'ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d'autres bêtes.
Rien ne peut l'égayer, ni gibier, ni faucon,
Ni son peuple mourant en face du balcon.
Du bouffon favori la grotesque ballade
Ne distrait plus le front de ce cruel malade;
...

Read complete poem

Popular Poets