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Biography

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
1,089 words, approx. 4 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....
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Biography of Virginia Stephen Woolf
10,617 words, approx. 35 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...
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Biography of (Adeline) Virginia Woolf
8,432 words, approx. 28 pages
Although Virginia Woolf published only eighteen works of short fiction, she was engaged in writing short stories, sketches, and even experimental prose poems throughout her writing career. Recent research has shown that the eighteen published pieces...
 


Quotations
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Virginia Woolf ( 1882-01-25 – 1941-03-28 ), born Adeline Virginia Stephen, was a British writer who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century. See also : Orlando: A Biography Contents 1...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Woolf, Virginia Summary
20,297 words, approx. 68 pages
A critically acclaimed novelist and essayist, Woolf was a founding member of the intellectual circle known as the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), and the essay A Room of...
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Virginia Woolf Information
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Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) 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...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Commentary Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf (and Intermarriage)
12/1/2006: 622 words, approx. 2 pages
This vision of intermarriage is offered by Commentary in its December issue, in a piece about Leonard and Virginia Woolf (based on the new biography of Leonard by Victoria Glendinning). John Gross writes that Leonard Woolf's marriage was a sham of Jewish self-hatred. Virginia, he...
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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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AP Features
Actor George Grizzard dies at 79; won Tony for revival of Albee's `A Delicate Balance'
10/3/2007: 567 words, approx. 2 pages
Broadway and screen actor George Grizzard, who won acclaim, and a Tony Award, for performing in Edward Albee's dramas, has died. He was 79.Grizzard died Tuesday at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center of complications from lung cancer, said his agent, Clifford Stevens.Grizzard's film roles included...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ellen Tremper
12,618 words, approx. 42 pages
In the following essay, Tremper investigates the influence of William Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes on Woolf's “The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn.”
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Critical Essay by Karin E. Westman
12,488 words, approx. 42 pages
In the following essay, Westman maintains that “Friendships Gallery” best represents Woolf's development of a “new ‘art’ of biography that could negotiate the tension between fact and fiction” and identifies the story as the roots of her novel Orlando.
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Critical Essay by Leena Kore Schröder
11,884 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Schröder explores elements of anti-Semitism in Woolf's short story “The Duchess and the Jeweller” and Leonard Woolf's “Three Jews.”
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 98%
Confrontation of Gender Roles in the Works of Mill, Tennyson, and Woolf
2,657 words, approx. 9 pages
Discussing the works of Mill, Tennyson, and Woolf and their opinions on gender roles set by society
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Essay Grade: 86%
Societal Control
797 words, approx. 3 pages
Describes how society affects and controls our lives. Considers how this concept is reflected in in the writings of Greg Graffin, Virginia Woolf, and John Balzar.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Virginia Woolfe
509 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay provides a description of the writing style of Virginia Woolfe.
 


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