Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

The Bloomsbury Group

Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf
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Virginia Woolf The Pond at Charleston

non-fiction

A Room of One’s Own (1929)

… it would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have
written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. Let me imagine, since facts are so
hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister,
called Judith, let us say.
Three Guineas (1938)
essays
“Modern Fiction” (1919)

Look within and life, it seems, is very far from being “like this”. Examine for a
moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad
impressions — trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel.
From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms …

main works:

Jacob’s Room (1922)

Mrs Dalloway (1925)
To the Lighthouse (1927)
The Waves (1931)