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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]]. | + | '''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> |
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* ''The Essays of Virginia Woolf'' (4 vols. through 1928) | * ''The Essays of Virginia Woolf'' (4 vols. through 1928) | ||
* ''The Letters of Virginia Woolf'' (6 vols.) | * ''The Letters of Virginia Woolf'' (6 vols.) | ||
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[[Category:Novelists]] | [[Category:Novelists]] | ||
Revision as of 15:26, November 4, 2009
Virginia Woolf (born Adeline Virginia Stephen, January 25, 1882, London; died March 28, 1941, Rodmell, East Sussex) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and publisher. She is today considered one of the most significant writers of the 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."[1] Woolf's friend and colleague E. M. Forster said that "she pushed the light of the English language a little farther against darkness."[2]
Selected Bibliography
Novels
- The Voyage Out (1915)
- Night and Day (1919)
- Jacob's Room (1922)
- Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
- To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Orlando (1928)
- The Waves (1931)
- The Years (1937)
- Between the Acts (1941)
Nonfiction
- The Common Reader (1925)
- A Room of One's Own (1929)
- The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)
- Flush: A Biography (1933)
- Three Guineas (1938)
- Roger Fry: A Biography (1940)
Collections
- The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf (ed. Susan Dick)
- The Diary of Virginia Woolf (5 vols.)
- The Essays of Virginia Woolf (4 vols. through 1928)
- The Letters of Virginia Woolf (6 vols.)