Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
Author of Mrs Dalloway
About the Author
Virginia Woolf was born in London, England on January 25, 1882. She was the daughter of the prominent literary critic Leslie Stephen. Her early education was obtained at home through her parents and governesses. After death of her father in 1904, her family moved to Bloomsbury, where they formed show more the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of philosophers, writers, and artists. During her lifetime, she wrote both fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels included Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Between the Acts. Her non-fiction books included The Common Reader, A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays, and The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. Having had periods of depression throughout her life and fearing a final mental breakdown from which she might not recover, Woolf drowned herself on March 28, 1941 at the age of 59. Her husband published part of her farewell letter to deny that she had taken her life because she could not face the terrible times of war. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Virginia Woolf
Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings (1977) 172 copies
Virginia Woolf Collection: Includes Her Greatest Works: Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, to the Lighthouse, a Room of One's Own (2013) 21 copies
Schrijversdagboek 2 18 copies
Schrijversdagboek 1 16 copies
Profissões Para Mulheres e Outros Artigos Feministas. Pocket Plus (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2012) 15 copies
Mrs. Dalloway / The Waves 13 copies
Dinamització d'activitats de temps lliure educatiu infantil i juvenil : manual de formació (2009) 6 copies
As Mulheres Devem Chorar Ou Se Unir Contra a Guerra. Patriarcado e Militarismo (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 5 copies
The Letters of Virginia Woolf 4 copies
48 Ensaios 3 copies
The Virginia Woolf Anthology (A Room of One's Own, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Years etc) (2016) 3 copies
Robinson Crusoe [essay] 3 copies
Cinco relatos para mujeres 3 copies
Diário 2 copies
A Summing Up [short story] 2 copies
Together and Apart [short story] 2 copies
Obras Completas (Vol. 1) 2 copies
Mrs. Dalloway / Orlando 2 copies
The Russian Point of View [essay] 2 copies
To the Lighthouse / Orlando 2 copies
The Leaning Tower 2 copies
Romankunstens faser 2 copies
Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street 2 copies
The Classic Works 2 copies
Sono una snob? e altri saggi 2 copies
Notes on an Elizabethan Play [essay] 2 copies
Tutti i romanzi - Volume 1 La crociera - Notte e giorno - La camera di Jacob - La signora Dalloway (1994) 2 copies
Les livres tiennent tout seuls sur leurs pieds (Domaine étranger t. 35) (French Edition) (2017) 2 copies
Greatest Short Stories by Women 2 copies
Modern Fiction [essay] 2 copies
Four Figures [essay] 1 copy
Jack Mytton [essay] 1 copy
Two Parsons [essay] 1 copy
Le Rideau de Mrs Lugton 1 copy
El momento: noche de verano 1 copy
ENSAIOS SELETOS 1 copy
Professions for Women 1 copy
I Meridiani - Le onde 1 copy
Defoe [essay] 1 copy
I Meridiani - Orlando 1 copy
Addison [essay] 1 copy
Lives of the Obscure [essay] 1 copy
Jane Austen [essay] 1 copy
I Meridiani - Al Faro 1 copy
George Eliot [essay] 1 copy
Outlines [essay] 1 copy
The Modern Essay [essay] 1 copy
Joseph Conrad [essay] 1 copy
William Hazlitt [essay] 1 copy
Essais 1 copy
EL FARO 1 copy
Artículos y reseñas 1 copy
A cortina da tia Bá 1 copy
Virginia Woolf par elle meme 1 copy
Short fiction 1 copy
Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated): Original 1925 Edition with Contemporary Biography of Virginia Woolf 1 copy
Geraldine and Jane [essay] 1 copy
Aurora Leigh [essay] 1 copy
The Niece of an Earl [essay] 1 copy
George Gissing [essay] 1 copy
Das grosse Lesebuch 1 copy
"Mr Bennet and Mrs Brown" 1 copy
The History of Love 1 copy
A Room of One's Own 1 copy
Il segno sul muro- Una casa stregata-Oggetti solidi-Il vestito nuovo-L'uomo che amava il suo prossimo. Ediz. italiana e… (2017) 1 copy
Montaigne [essay] 1 copy
Briefe 1: 1888-1927 1 copy
Virginia Woolf's Collected Works: The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room, Monday or Tuesday, (3 Novels… (2013) 1 copy
The Love of Reading 1 copy
Woolf Virginia 1 copy
Souls, Ghosts and Vampires 1 copy
Mrs. Dalloway and Essays 1 copy
The Novels, Volume 3 1 copy
The Bookclub-in-a-Box Discussion Guide to To The Lighthouse, the Novel by Virginia Woolf (Bookclub-In-A-Box) (2005) 1 copy
THE HOGARTH LETTERS 1 copy
Kew Gardens and Other Works by Virginia Woolf (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 1 copy
Mrs. Dalloway - Manuscrito — Author — 1 copy
Virginia Woolf, Gesammelte Werke: Gebunden in feingeprägter Leinenstruktur auf Naturpapier aus Bayern. Mit goldener… (2022) 1 copy
Journal, tome 2 [1919-1922] 1 copy
بيت تسكنه الأشباح وقصص أخرى 1 copy
أثر على الحائط 1 copy
Las Excentricas 1 copy
The Common Reader [essay] 1 copy
Old Bloomsbury [essay] 1 copy
Reminiscences [essay] 1 copy
Umca Casa Assombrada, Contos 1 copy
Jacob's Room 1 copy
WOOLF tutti i romanzi 1 copy
Hogarth sixpenny pamphlets 1 copy
Short Stories 1 copy
Two Stories 1 copy
Tra un atto e l'altro 1 copy
180 Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die (Vol.2): Life is a Dream, The Awakening, Babbitt, Strange Case of Dr… (2020) 1 copy
I racconti 1 copy
Rupert Brooke 1 copy
In the Orchard 1 copy
Woolf, Virgina Archive 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 929 copies
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contributor — 447 copies
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Contributor — 367 copies
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributor — 149 copies
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 133 copies
Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dream Child as Seen Through the Critics' Looking-glasses, 1865-1971 (1971) — Contributor — 119 copies
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Contributor, some editions — 78 copies
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contributor — 47 copies
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contributor — 42 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contributor — 40 copies
Ghostly Gentlewomen: Two Centuries of Spectral Stories by the Gentle Sex (1900) — Contributor — 23 copies
The Spoken Word: British Writers, 3-CD Set (British Library - British Library Sound Archive) (2008) — Contributor — 8 copies
De mooiste verhalen van James Baldwin, John Berger, Jorge Luis Borges, Jane Bowles, Joseph Brodsky, Charles Bukowski,… (1990) — Contributor — 7 copies
Selections, Autobiographical and Imaginative, from the Works of George Gissing (1929) — Introduction — 5 copies
Die englische Literatur 09 in Text und Darstellung. 20. Jahrhundert. (2001) — Contributor — 3 copies
Recent Paintings by Vanessa Bell. With a foreword by Virginia Woolf. February 4th to March 8th 1930. [A catalogue.] — Foreword, some editions — 2 copies
Modern Short Stories — Contributor — 2 copies
Ein Haus mit vielen Zimmern: Autorinnen erzählen vom Schreiben (edition fünf 27) (German Edition) (2015) — Contributor — 1 copy
Neue Rundschau 1/80 — Author — 1 copy
* De Provence Lege Artis: Verhalen uit het land van Van Gogh — Contributor — 1 copy
Contemporary British Short Stories II. George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, H. E. Bates. (1998) — Author — 1 copy
50 seltsame Geschichten — Contributor — 1 copy
Orlando (Robert Wilson) [Programmheft] — Author — 1 copy
The London mercury — Contributor — 1 copy
The Dial, Vol LXXVII No 6, December 1924 — Contributor, some editions — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Woolf, Virginia
- Legal name
- Stephen, Adeline Virginia (birth name)
- Other names
- Woolf, Adeline Virginia
- Birthdate
- 1882-01-25
- Date of death
- 1941-03-28
- Burial location
- Rodmell, Sussex, England, UK
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- Kensington, Middlesex, England, UK
- Place of death
- Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK
- Cause of death
- Suicide
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Rodmell, Sussex, England, UK
St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK - Occupations
- novelist
essayist
publisher
critic - Relationships
- Woolf, Leonard (husband)
Stephen, Thoby (brother)
Stephen, Adrian (brother)
Bell, Vanessa (sister)
Stephen, Leslie (father)
Bell, Clive (brother-in-law) (show all 22)
Garnett, Angelica (niece)
Bell, Julian (nephew)
Bell, Quentin (nephew)
Nicholson, Virginia (great-niece)
Sackville-West, Vita (intimate friend)
Stephen, James Fitzjames (uncle)
Garnett, Henrietta (great-niece)
Woolf, Cecil (nephew)
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray (step-aunt)
Morrell, Lady Ottoline (friend)
Strachey, Lytton (friend)
Keynes, John Maynard (friend)
Forster, E. M. (friend)
Lehmann, John (employee)
Grant, Duncan (friend)
Fry, Roger (friend) - Organizations
- Bloomsbury Group
Memoir Club
Hogarth Press - Short biography
- Born 1882 in Kensington, London. Daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Duckworth. Married Leonard Woolf. Committed suicide, aged 59.
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Folio Archives 350: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 1988 in Folio Society Devotees (November 2023)
Group Read - A Room of One's Own in Club Read 2023 (May 2023)
A Room of One's Own (2017) in Folio Society Devotees (September 2021)
Virginia Woolf/Mrs. Dalloway in Someone explain it to me... (September 2021)
Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room in Author Theme Reads (June 2019)
Group Read, February 2016: The Voyage Out in 1001 Books to read before you die (February 2016)
***April Group Read: Orlando by Virginia Woolf in 2015 Category Challenge (April 2015)
February 2015: Virginia Woolf in Monthly Author Reads (March 2015)
Group Read, December 2014: Orlando in 1001 Books to read before you die (December 2014)
I've never read *******; where should I start? in Virago Modern Classics (January 2014)
May 2012: Virginia Woolf in Monthly Author Reads (August 2012)
Woolf: The Voyage Out in Author Theme Reads (February 2009)
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway in Author Theme Reads (February 2009)
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Still, the letters do form a fine complement to our knowledge of both writers, but probably only if you already know a lot about them. The letters show but tell us very little about Vita travels and about Sissinghurst, the manor she moved to after losing her ancestral home. We catch some glimpses of Virginia. However, for these minor intresting moments we have to read through page-upon-page of boring and short missives.… (more)