Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf


Born
in Kensington, Middlesex, England, The United Kingdom
January 25, 1882

Died
March 28, 1941

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(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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Mrs. Dalloway

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To the Lighthouse

3.76 avg rating — 94,754 ratings — published 1921 — 454 editions
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A Room of One's Own

4.09 avg rating — 71,106 ratings — published 1929 — 337 editions
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Orlando

3.86 avg rating — 38,890 ratings — published 1928 — 349 editions
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The Waves

4.14 avg rating — 18,663 ratings — published 1931 — 283 editions
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The Voyage Out

3.75 avg rating — 6,963 ratings — published 1915 — 265 editions
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Night and Day

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3.75 avg rating — 6,356 ratings — published 1919 — 239 editions
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Jacob's Room

3.53 avg rating — 6,149 ratings — published 1922 — 274 editions
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Between the Acts

3.65 avg rating — 4,200 ratings — published 1941 — 130 editions
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A Writer's Diary

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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Virginia Woolf

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
Virginia Woolf

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March Short Story Poll

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, 30 pages, 1948
 
  77 votes, 24.4%

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  53 votes, 16.8%

 
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  32 votes, 10.2%

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, 48 pages, 1729
 
  27 votes, 8.6%

 
  25 votes, 7.9%

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, 126 pages, 1925
 
  25 votes, 7.9%

 
  20 votes, 6.3%

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, 90 pages, 1979
 
  10 votes, 3.2%

The Double Bass by Patrick Süskind, 57 pages, 1981
 
  4 votes, 1.3%

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