| − | '''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]]. | + | '''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> |