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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential modernist authors of the twentieth century. Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London, she pioneered stream-of-consciousness narration in novels including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, and wrote the landmark feminist essay A Room of One's Own. A central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, she co-founded the Hogarth Press with her husband, Leonard Woolf, in 1917. Woolf struggled with recurring mental illn...
