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The Duchess and the Jeweller by Virginia Woolf

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Name: Virginia Stephen Woolf
Birth Date: January 25, 1882
Death Date: March 28, 1941
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: Lewes, Sussex, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: novelist, critic, essayist

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Biography of Virginia Stephen Woolf
1089 words, approx. 3.6 pages
The English novelist, critic, and essayist Virginia Stephen Woolf (1882-1941) ranks as one of England's most distinguished writers of the period between World War I and World War II. Her novels can perhaps best be described as impressionistic. Dissatisfi...
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Biography of Virginia Stephen Woolf
10617 words, approx. 35.4 pages
The writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary establishment. She was, as she herself put it, always a hare a long...
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Biography of (Adeline) Virginia Woolf
9348 words, approx. 31.2 pages
The writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary establishment. She was, as she herself put it, always a hare a long...
 


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The Duchess and the Jeweller Information
323 words, approx. 1 pages
"The Duchess and the Jeweller" (1944) is a short story by Virginia Woolf. Woolf, being an advocate of addressing the "stream of consciousness," shows the thoughts and actions of a greedy jeweller; Woolf makes a thematic point that corrupt people do...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Jewels and Gems Fit for a Duchess
03/18/1987: 709 words, approx. 2 pages
Gleaming under glass like a movie set from "Topkapi," the fabulous jewelry collection of the duchess of Windsor, chronicling the most famous love affair of the 20th century, goes on display today at Sotheby's, the American preview before their sale April 2 in Geneva....
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The Independent - London
Airborne mystery of Duchess's jewels
12/06/1995: 301 words, approx. 1 pages
Police in London and Washington were last night investigating the theft of jewellery, believed to be worth pounds 250,000, given to the Duchess of York on her wedding day by the Queen. The diamond necklace and bracelet were taken from a suitcase belonging...
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The New York Observer
A Biography of One\'d5s Own: Virginia Woolf for Readers
12/4/2005: 1,199 words, approx. 4 pages
According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography published nearly a decade ago, “Virginia Woolf’s story is reformulated by each generation. She takes on the shape of difficult modernist … or comedian of manners, or neurotic highbrow aesthete, or inventive fantasist, or pernicious snob,...
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The New York Observer
A Biography of One's Own: Virginia Woolf for Readers
12/4/2005: 1,198 words, approx. 4 pages
According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography published nearly a decade ago, “Virginia Woolf’s story is reformulated by each generation. She takes on the shape of difficult modernist … or comedian of manners, or neurotic highbrow aesthete, or inventive fantasist, or pernicious...


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