Virginia Woolf, 0000-0000

The works of ...

... VIRGINIA   WOOLF

Publication details of Solid Objects:

Published in 1944

Other literary works include:

A Room of One's Own (1929)
Orlando (1928)
Mrs Dalloway (1925)

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY ...

Born:

25th of January, 1882 in London, UK

Early years:

She was born from the second marriage of Leslie Stephen, a literary critic. She came from a comfortable upper middle-class background.

Schooling:

Woolf was educated by private tutors and by extensive reading of literary classics in her father's library.

Career:

From 1905 woolf began to write for the Times Literary Supplement. She published her first book, The Voyage Out, in 1915. In 1919 appeared Night and Day with To the Lighthouse and The Waves Woolf established herself as one of the leading writers of modernism. During the inter-war period she was the centre of literary society, both in London and at her home in Rodmell. The Bloomsbury group was initially based at the Gordon Square residence of Virginia and her sister, Vanessa Bell. By the early 1930s the group ceased to exist in its original form.

Final years:

She spent the last years of her life in Bloomsbury and in Romdell.

Died:

After the final attack of mental illness Woolf loaded her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the river, Ouse, near her Sussex home on 28th of March, 1941.

Woolf-related web-sites:

Wolrd Authors Profile: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

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