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Virginia Woolf


Born
in Kensington, Middlesex, England
January 25, 1882

Died
March 28, 1941

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(Adeline) Virginia Woolf 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 London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
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Average rating: 3.88 · 1,561,366 ratings · 128,785 reviews · 2,111 distinct works • Similar authors
Mrs. Dalloway

3.77 avg rating — 378,875 ratings — published 1925 — 138 editions
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A Room of One’s Own

4.22 avg rating — 285,412 ratings — published 1929 — 206 editions
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To the Lighthouse

3.81 avg rating — 228,042 ratings — published 1927 — 91 editions
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Orlando

3.87 avg rating — 124,169 ratings — published 1928 — 81 editions
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The Waves

4.14 avg rating — 57,519 ratings — published 1931 — 748 editions
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Flush

3.88 avg rating — 16,182 ratings — published 1933 — 47 editions
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Jacob's Room

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3.52 avg rating — 14,313 ratings — published 1922 — 23 editions
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The Voyage Out

3.75 avg rating — 12,729 ratings — published 1915 — 15 editions
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Night and Day

3.76 avg rating — 10,520 ratings — published 1919 — 920 editions
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Between the Acts

3.60 avg rating — 9,372 ratings — published 1941 — 396 editions
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Quotes by Virginia Woolf  (?)
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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

Polls

January 2018 Short Story Poll

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, 112 pages, 1929
 
  106 votes, 33.5%

Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson, 54 pages, 1880
 
  37 votes, 11.7%

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 82 pages, 1848
 
  34 votes, 10.8%

 
  29 votes, 9.2%

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, 126 pages, 1925
 
  28 votes, 8.9%

 
  25 votes, 7.9%

 
  24 votes, 7.6%

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, 106 pages, 1963
 
  15 votes, 4.7%

Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham, 128 pages, 1892
 
  9 votes, 2.8%

 
  9 votes, 2.8%

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