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Woolf, Virginia

  1. A twentieth-century English author who experimented with stream-of-consciousness narrative technique. Her works include the novel To The Lighthouse and the essay “A Room of One's Own.”


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Virginia Woolf loved Wuthering Heights and considered Emily Brontë superior to her sister Charlotte.

Fans of Virginia Woolf may enjoy the following list of books written by her less famous female contemporaries.

“And there is definitely a bit of Susan in this [with] Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf,” she said.

Her remembrances of the artist Roger Fry and her aunt Virginia Woolf are beautifully rendered.

Virginia Woolf, however, did read Greek; she was translating Sophocles while she was writing Mrs. Dalloway.

A writer of greater gifts, Virginia Woolf, has lately developed a taste for playing tricks with traditional constructions.

Virginia Woolf may have found herself incapable of taking us into its recesses: in the world of reality she is wonderful.

In this sort, Mrs. Virginia Woolf has written a very extraordinary story.

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