Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist, born on 25 January 1882 in London and died on 28 March 1941 near Rodmell, Sussex. A central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, she founded the Hogarth Press with her husband Leonard Woolf in 1917. Her novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and The Waves (1931) made her one of the leading voices of literary modernism, and her essay A Room of One's Own (1929) remains a founding text of feminist criticism. She also left a large body of diaries, letters and essays.
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Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist, born on 25 January 1882 in London and died on 28 March 1941 near Rodmell, Sussex. A central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, she founded the Hogarth Press with her husband Leonard Woolf in 1917. Her novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and The Waves (1931) made her one of the leading voices of literary modernism, and her essay A Room of One's Own (1929) remains a founding text of feminist criticism. She also left a large body of diaries, letters and essays.
