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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Series
Works by Virginia Woolf
Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings (1977) 180 copies
Mrs. Dalloway / The Waves 125 copies
Virginia Woolf Collection: Includes Her Greatest Works: Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, to the Lighthouse, a Room of One's Own (2013) 24 copies
Schrijversdagboek 2 18 copies
Schrijversdagboek 1 16 copies
Profissões Para Mulheres e Outros Artigos Feministas. Pocket Plus (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2012) 16 copies
Dinamització d'activitats de temps lliure educatiu infantil i juvenil : manual de formació (2009) 6 copies
The Virginia Woolf BBC Radio Drama Collection: Seven full-cast dramatisations (2019) 5 copies, 2 reviews
As Mulheres Devem Chorar Ou Se Unir Contra a Guerra. Patriarcado e Militarismo (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 5 copies
Tutti i romanzi - Volume 1 La crociera - Notte e giorno - La camera di Jacob - La signora Dalloway (1994) 3 copies
Cinco relatos para mujeres 3 copies
Jacob's Room [Annotated] 3 copies
La Signora Dalloway in Bond Street: La Signora Dalloway in Bond Street/Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street (Italian Edition) (1999) 3 copies
Greatest Short Stories by Women 3 copies
The Virginia Woolf Anthology (A Room of One's Own, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Years etc) (2016) 3 copies
48 Ensaios 3 copies
Librivox Ghost Story Collection 006 2 copies
great works of virginia woolf 2 copies
GENIO E INCHIOSTRO 2 copies
Obras Completas (Vol. 1) 2 copies
O cameră doar a ei 2 copies
To the Lighthouse / Orlando 2 copies
Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street 2 copies
Mrs. Dalloway / Orlando 2 copies
Robinson Crusoe [essay] 2 copies
Romankunstens faser 2 copies
The Leaning Tower 2 copies
No title 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
Spre far. Orlando 1 copy
Al faro Orlando 1 copy
Modern Classics Flush 1 copy
I classici Adelphi 1963-64 1 copy
El momento: noche de verano 1 copy
The Novels, Volume 3 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
The History of Love 1 copy
"Mr Bennet and Mrs Brown" 1 copy
The Virginia Woolf Collection 5 Books Set (The Waves, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, MRS… (2022) 1 copy
I Meridiani - Al Faro 1 copy
I Meridiani - Orlando 1 copy
I Meridiani - Le onde 1 copy
Le Rideau de Mrs Lugton 1 copy
EL FARO 1 copy
EL ENTREACTO 1 copy
A cortina da tia Bá 1 copy
Virginia Woolf Archive 1 copy
Орландо 1 copy
Gospodja Dalovej 1 copy
Diari. (1920-1924) (Vol. 2) 1 copy
Anon (Portuguese Edition) 1 copy
A CORTINA DA TIA BÁ 1 copy
THE HOGARTH LETTERS 1 copy
Artículos y reseñas 1 copy
Tra un atto e l'altro 1 copy
Woolf Virginia 1 copy
WOOLF tutti i romanzi 1 copy
Souls, Ghosts and Vampires 1 copy
Journal, tome 2 [1919-1922] 1 copy
The Love of Reading 1 copy
Mrs. Dalloway - Manuscrito — Author — 1 copy
Kew Gardens and Other Works by Virginia Woolf (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 1 copy
Short Stories 1 copy
The Years & Between the Acts 1 copy
I racconti 1 copy
Hogarth sixpenny pamphlets 1 copy
Modern Fiction [essay] 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
Rupert Brooke 1 copy
Two Stories 1 copy
A Summing Up [short story] 1 copy
Essais 1 copy
Virginia Woolf's Collected Works: The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room, Monday or Tuesday, (3 Novels… (2013) 1 copy
Virginia Woolf par elle meme 1 copy
Short fiction 1 copy
La Señora Dalloway 1 copy
Professions for Women 1 copy
Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated): Original 1925 Edition with Contemporary Biography of Virginia Woolf 1 copy
Selections From Her Essays 1 copy
بيت تسكنه الأشباح وقصص أخرى 1 copy
Mrs. Dalloway and Essays 1 copy
Virginia Woolf, Gesammelte Werke: Gebunden in feingeprägter Leinenstruktur auf Naturpapier aus Bayern. Mit goldener… (2022) 1 copy
أثر على الحائط 1 copy
Las Excentricas 1 copy
Jacob's Room 1 copy
Associated Works
Paradise Lost [Norton Critical Edition] (1667) — Contributor, some editions — 2,274 copies, 13 reviews
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) — Introduction, some editions — 1,797 copies, 24 reviews
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 955 copies, 7 reviews
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman [Norton Critical Edition] (1975) — Contributor — 512 copies, 3 reviews
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contributor — 456 copies, 1 review
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Contributor — 381 copies, 18 reviews
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contributor — 258 copies, 1 review
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributor — 152 copies, 1 review
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 140 copies, 1 review
Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dream Child as Seen Through the Critics' Looking-glasses, 1865-1971 (1971) — Contributor — 121 copies, 3 reviews
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2012) — Contributor, some editions — 84 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 — 43 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 (1977) — Contributor — 26 copies
Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections (2007) — Contributor — 12 copies, 1 review
The Spoken Word: British Writers, 3-CD Set (British Library - British Library Sound Archive) (2008) — Contributor — 9 copies
De mooiste verhalen van James Baldwin, John Berger, Jorge Luis Borges, Jane Bowles, Joseph Brodsky, Charles Bukowski,… (1990) — Contributor — 6 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. Exhibition catalogue. — Foreword, some editions — 2 copies
Ein Haus mit vielen Zimmern: Autorinnen erzählen vom Schreiben (edition fünf 27) (German Edition) (2015) — Contributor — 2 copies
Modern Short Stories — Contributor — 2 copies
The Dial, Vol LXXVII No 6, December 1924 — Contributor, some editions — 1 copy
Orlando (Robert Wilson) [Programmheft] — Author — 1 copy
50 seltsame Geschichten — Contributor — 1 copy
The London mercury — Contributor — 1 copy
Contemporary British Short Stories II. George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, H. E. Bates. (1998) — Author — 1 copy
* De Provence Lege Artis: Verhalen uit het land van Van Gogh — Contributor — 1 copy
Neue Rundschau 1/80 — Author — 1 copy
Tagged
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, Middlesex, 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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Discussions
Virginia Woolf/Mrs. Dalloway in Someone explain it to me... (September 18)
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: 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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