Virginia Woolf

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Adeline Virginia Woolf 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 in a blended family of eight which included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. Her mother was Julia Prinsep Jackson and her father Leslie Stephen. While the boys in the family received college educations, the girls were home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature. An important influence in Virginia Woolf's early life was the summer home the family used in St Ives, Cornwall, where she first saw the Godrevy Lighthouse, which was to become central to her novel To the Lighthouse .

Published Works

• Orlando
• Chronology
• Preface
• Introduction
• Intention
• Form
• Theme
• The novel and The Waves
• The rhythm of the waves
• Guide to further reading
• Last Lectures
• Roger Fry
• “Professions for Women” (1942)
• Four Figures: III. Mary Wollstonecraft

Other Resources

• en.wikipedia.org

• Study Guide: Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

  As an author of twentieth-century modernism, her writing have greatly impacted the feminist movement. Moreover, Woolf established the stream of consciousness method as a narrative device.

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