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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Average rating: 3.87 · 1,501,771 ratings · 119,037 reviews · 1,228 distinct worksSimilar authors
Mrs. Dalloway

3.77 avg rating — 364,192 ratings — published 1925 — 2388 editions
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A Room of One’s Own

4.22 avg rating — 269,507 ratings — published 1929 — 2545 editions
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To the Lighthouse

3.81 avg rating — 219,262 ratings — published 1927 — 1734 editions
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Orlando

3.87 avg rating — 118,434 ratings — published 1928 — 1293 editions
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The Waves

4.14 avg rating — 54,906 ratings — published 1931 — 807 editions
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Flush

3.88 avg rating — 15,136 ratings — published 1933 — 422 editions
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Jacob's Room

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3.52 avg rating — 13,777 ratings — published 1922 — 942 editions
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The Voyage Out

3.75 avg rating — 12,432 ratings — published 1915 — 1285 editions
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Night and Day

3.76 avg rating — 10,228 ratings — published 1919 — 74 editions
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Between the Acts

3.60 avg rating — 9,132 ratings — published 1941 — 411 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.”
Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

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April 2016 New School Classic Group Read

1927, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 209 pages
 
  32 votes, 18.1%

 
  28 votes, 15.8%

 
  18 votes, 10.2%

1961, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, 346 pages
 
  17 votes, 9.6%

1969, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pages
 
  13 votes, 7.3%

 
  11 votes, 6.2%

 
  10 votes, 5.6%

 
  9 votes, 5.1%

 
  9 votes, 5.1%

1963, The Clocks by Agatha Christie, 381 pages
 
  9 votes, 5.1%

1900, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 455 pages
 
  6 votes, 3.4%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, 220 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1969, them by Joyce Carol Oates, 576 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

1962, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, 256 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

 
  1 vote, 0.6%

1929, Cimarron by Edna Ferber, 400 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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