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| − | '''Virginia Woolf''' (born Adeline Virginia Stephen, January 25, 1882, [[London]]; died March 28, 1941, Rodmell, East Sussex) was an [[England|English]] [[novel]]ist, [[short story]] writer, [[essay]]ist and [[publisher]]. She is today considered one of the most significant writers of the [[20th century|Twentieth Century]]; as a fiction writer, one of the "major figures of literary modernism", and a "pioneering" writer of essays on "artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing, and the politics of power."<ref>http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/647786/Virginia-Woolf</ref> Woolf's friend and colleague [[E. M. Forster]] said that "she pushed the light of the English language a little farther against darkness."<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/specials/woolf-forster.html</ref> | + | [[Image:George Charles Beresford - Virginia Woolf in 1902 - Restoration.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Woolf in 1902]] |
| | + | '''Virginia Woolf''' (born Adeline Virginia Stephen, January 25, 1882, [[London]]; died March 28, 1941, Rodmell, East Sussex) was an [[England|English]] [[novel]]ist, [[short story]] writer, [[essay]]ist and [[publisher]]. She is today considered one of the most significant writers of the [[20th century|Twentieth Century]]; as a fiction writer, one of the "major figures of literary modernism", and a "pioneering" writer of essays on "artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing, and the politics of power."<ref>https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/647786/Virginia-Woolf</ref> Woolf's friend and colleague [[E. M. Forster]] said that "she pushed the light of the English language a little farther against darkness."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/specials/woolf-forster.html</ref> |
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| | + | During the ''Dreadnought hoax'', Woolf and several associates from the Bloomsbury group put on blackface and costumes like what an Abyssinian representative would wear. They successfully boarded a British battleship.<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-time-virginia-woolf-wore-blackface The Time Virginia Woolf Wore Blackface]</ref> |
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| | ==References== | | ==References== |
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| | + | ==External links== |
| | + | * [https://librivox.org/author/843 Works by Virginia Woolf - text and free audio] - [[LibriVox]] |
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