name: Virginia Woolf
birth_date: 1882-01-25 00:00:00
death_date: 1941-03-28 00:00:00
genres: Fiction, Essays
influences: E.M. Forster, Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Walter Pater, George Eliot, Marcel Proust, Emily Brontë, Mary Wollstonecraft,  Leo Tolstoy,  William Shakespeare, Anton Chekov, Walter Scott, James Joyce
avg_rating: 3.87
ratings_count: 1357027
about: (Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." (Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." ...more