Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a literary element.

Woolf was born into an affluent South Kensington family, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight that included Vanessa Bell, a modernist painter. From a young age, she was homeschooled in English classics and Victorian literature. She studied classics and history in the Ladies' Department of King's College London from 1897 to 1901, where she met early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement.

Woolf began writing professionally in 1900, thanks to her father's encouragement. Following her father's death in 1904, the Stephen family relocated from Kensington to Bloomsbury, where they created the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group with the brothers' intellectual acquaintances. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912, and the two launched the Hogarth Press in 1917, which published a lot of her work. In 1940, they rented a house in Sussex and settled there permanently. Vita Sackville-West, who also published her novels through Hogarth Press, was one of Woolf's romantic partners. Their relationship, which lasted until Woolf's death, influenced both women's writing.

Woolf was a prominent figure in London's literary and artistic circles throughout the interwar years. Her debut novel, The Voyage Out, was released in 1915 by her half-publishing brother's business, Gerald Duckworth and Company. Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando are among her best-known pieces (1928). Her articles, such as A Room of One's Own, are also well-known (1929). Woolf became a prominent figure in the feminist critical movement of the 1970s, and her works have since gotten a lot of attention and criticism for "inspired feminism." More than 50 languages have been translated into her writings. Her life and work have been the topic of a significant corpus of literature, as well as plays, novels, and films. Today, statues, groups dedicated to her work, and a building at the University of London honor Woolf. These things can attest to her being one of the best female novelists ever.

Nationality: U.K