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 Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where she studied classics and history and came into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement.

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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.
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