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Virginia Woolf


Born
in Kensington, Middlesex, England
January 25, 1882

Died
March 28, 1941

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(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."
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Average rating: 3.87 · 1,424,953 ratings · 107,438 reviews · 1,909 distinct worksSimilar authors
Mrs. Dalloway

3.78 avg rating — 345,816 ratings — published 1923 — 2385 editions
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A Room of One’s Own

4.22 avg rating — 249,761 ratings — published 1929 — 3 editions
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To the Lighthouse

3.81 avg rating — 209,116 ratings — published 1927 — 1701 editions
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Orlando

3.87 avg rating — 110,905 ratings — published 1928 — 1259 editions
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The Waves

4.14 avg rating — 51,702 ratings — published 1931 — 767 editions
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Flush

3.88 avg rating — 13,586 ratings — published 1933 — 416 editions
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Jacob's Room

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3.52 avg rating — 13,216 ratings — published 1922 — 1376 editions
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The Voyage Out

3.75 avg rating — 12,039 ratings — published 1915 — 1269 editions
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Night and Day

3.76 avg rating — 9,965 ratings — published 1919
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Between the Acts

3.61 avg rating — 8,728 ratings — published 1941 — 391 editions
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Quotes by Virginia Woolf  (?)
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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

Polls

December 2017 Short Story Poll

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, 32 pages or less, 1905
 
  58 votes, 17.6%

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, 112 pages, 1929
 
  57 votes, 17.3%

A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, 24 pages or less, 1955
 
  34 votes, 10.3%

 
  33 votes, 10.0%

 
  32 votes, 9.7%

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote, 48 pages or less, 1956
 
  27 votes, 8.2%

Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann, 120 pages, 1815
 
  25 votes, 7.6%

The Eyes by Edith Wharton, 48 pages, 1910
 
  17 votes, 5.2%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages or less, 1903
 
  11 votes, 3.3%

The Lion in Winter by James Goldman, 60 pages, 1966
 
  11 votes, 3.3%

 
  9 votes, 2.7%

R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, 84 pages, 1920
 
  8 votes, 2.4%

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages,1936
 
  7 votes, 2.1%

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