Virginia Woolf

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Standard Name: Woolf, Virginia
Birth Name: Adeline Virginia Stephen
Nickname: Ginia
Married Name: Adeline Virginia Woolf
Thousands of readers over three or four generations have known that Virginia Woolf was—by a beadle—denied access to the library of a great university. They may have known, too, that she was a leading intellect of the twentieth century. If they are feminist readers they will know that she thought . . . back through her mothers and also sideways through her sisters and that she contributed more than any other in the twentieth century to the recovery of women's writing.
Marcus, Jane. “Introduction”. New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf, edited by Jane Marcus, Macmillan, p. i - xx.
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Educated in her father's library and in a far more than usually demanding school of life, she radically altered the course not only of the English tradition but also of the several traditions of literature in English.
Froula, Christine. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde. Columbia University Press.
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She wrote prodigiously—nine published novels, as well as stories, essays (including two crucial books on feminism, its relation to education and to war), diaries, letters, biographies (both serious and burlesque), and criticism. As a literary journalist in a wide range of forums, she addressed the major social issues of her time in more than a million words.
Woolf, Virginia. “Introduction; Editorial Note”. The Essays of Virginia Woolf, edited by Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, pp. vols. 1 - 4: various pages.
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She left a richly documented life in words, inventing a modern fiction, theorising modernity, writing the woman into the picture. She built this outstandingly influential work, which has had its impact on both writing and life, on her personal experience, and her fictions emerge to a striking degree from her life, her gender, and her moment in history. In a sketch of her career written to Ethel Smyth she said that a short story called An Unwritten Novelwas the great discovery . . . . That—again in one second—showed me how I could embody all my deposit of experience in a shape that fitted it.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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Friends, Associates Ling Shuhua
He also introduced her to both Vanessa Bell and his maternal aunt Virginia Woolf , who became important correspondents for her.
Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield.
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Friends, Associates E. M. Delafield
EMD had many literary friends, some of whom were associated with Time and Tide magazine, including Lady Rhondda, Winifred Holtby , L. A. G. Strong , A. B. Cox , Mary Agnes Hamilton , and...
Friends, Associates Mary Agnes Hamilton
Her friends were soon augmented by contacts from the world of work, like F. W. Hirst and Josef Redlich . Barbara and Laurence Hammond (a married pair of social commentators whose work was collaborative in...
Friends, Associates Rosamond Lehmann
During RL 's involvement with Goronwy Rees, they both encouraged novelist Henry Green (actual name Henry Yorke ) to submit the manuscript of his Party Going to John Lehmann, who promoted it with Leonard and...
Friends, Associates Rose Macaulay
When RM met Virginia Woolf , their relationship was slow to develop, because of her nervousness among the intellectual aristocrats of Bloomsbury. However, they remained friends until Woolf's death, and RM 's friendships with others...
Friends, Associates Violet Trefusis
VT had tea in London with Virginia Woolf (whom she was hoping to persuade to publish her first novel written in English, Tandem). It appeared next year from Heinemann .
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
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Friends, Associates F. Tennyson Jesse
Gordon Place became the centre of an active female literary community, which included Elizabeth Bowen , Rose Macaulay , Virginia Woolf , Ivy Low (who was also a good friend of Viola Meynell ), Ivy Compton-Burnett
Friends, Associates Susan Tweedsmuir
When ST 's parents and Leslie Stephen tried to nurture a childhood friendship between Susan, Vanessa (later Bell), and Virginia (later Woolf), the relationship never took root. As an adult, however (having admired Woolf's early...
Friends, Associates Ling Shuhua
Other authors with connections to Bloomsbury were drawn to Wuhan: W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood visited the campus on 22 April 1938 during their longer trip on which they wrote about the Sino-Japanese...
Friends, Associates Rosamond Lehmann
While younger than the principal figures and sometimes inclined to feel herself marginal, RL was positioned well within the Bloomsbury group. She was close friends with another younger associate, George Rylands . During the early...
Friends, Associates Ray Strachey
Virginia Woolf visited RS at Mud House (near Fernhurst in Sussex).
Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books.
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Friends, Associates Violet Hunt
Among those who frequented VH 's house there were some to whom she became especially close. Her long friendship with Henry James dated back to July 1882. Apart from an estrangement during the scandal over...
Friends, Associates Gertrude Bell
Vita Sackville-West stayed with GB in Baghdad; during the visit she discussed Bell by letter with her friend Virginia Woolf .
Howell, Georgina. Daughter of the Desert: the Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell. Macmillan.
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Winstone, Harry Victor Frederick. Gertrude Bell. J. Cape.
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Friends, Associates Ling Shuhua
Like her exchanges with Vanessa Bell , LS's letters to and from Woolf included reflections about their personal lives and their larger literary and political worlds. She sought Woolf's guidance: Will you allow me to...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Wellesley
In Rome during the First World War, DW became a friend of two scholars, Geoffrey Scott , and Gerald Tyrwhitt, later Lord Berners .
Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie.
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In the years after the war she formed her important...

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