Woolf, Virginia

A twentieth-century English author who experimented with stream-of-consciousness narrative technique. Her works include the novel To The Lighthouse and the essay “A Room of One's Own.”

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Gillian Gill’s new biography of Woolf, “Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World,” takes as its organizing principle Woolf’s relationships, familial and otherwise, with women, placing special emphasis on the writer’s connections to intellectually and literarily ambitious female figures of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf’s first masterpiece pioneered stream-of-consciousness storytelling to describe a day in the life of a London society hostess and the breakdown of a World War I veteran.

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Their nonsense song — “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf” — has become a kind of lifesaving lullaby.

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Death of Power: "Street Haunting: A London Adventure" by Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf is a writer of unsurpassed beauty and eloquence.

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Virginia willow Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

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