Virginia Woolf


Born
in Kensington, Middlesex, England
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

3.77 avg rating — 369,028 ratings — published 1925 — 2371 editions
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A Room of One’s Own

4.22 avg rating — 274,239 ratings — published 1929 — 2 editions
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To the Lighthouse

3.81 avg rating — 222,264 ratings — published 1927 — 1735 editions
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Orlando

3.87 avg rating — 120,359 ratings — published 1928 — 1288 editions
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The Waves

4.14 avg rating — 55,791 ratings — published 1931 — 807 editions
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Flush

3.88 avg rating — 15,503 ratings — published 1933 — 13 editions
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Jacob's Room

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3.52 avg rating — 13,945 ratings — published 1922 — 1397 editions
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The Voyage Out

3.75 avg rating — 12,525 ratings — published 1915 — 949 editions
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Night and Day

3.76 avg rating — 10,304 ratings — published 1919 — 692 editions
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Between the Acts

3.60 avg rating — 9,222 ratings — published 1941 — 410 editions
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Quotes by Virginia Woolf  (?)
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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, A Room of One’s Own

“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

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
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