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| Née Adeline Virginia Stephen. 1882-1941. Writer, journalist, smoker. Married to [[Leonard Woolf]]. | | Née Adeline Virginia Stephen. 1882-1941. Writer, journalist, smoker. Married to [[Leonard Woolf]]. |
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| '''Early life'''
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| She had an intellectual background. Her father was Leslie Stephen, who was the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. Her sister [[Vanessa Bell]] was to become a painter. In 1895 her mother died unexpectedly, and Virginia suffered her first mental breakdown. After the death of her father in 1904 Virginia Stephen had a second nervous breakdown and moved to Bloomsbury, where she became a member of the [[Bloomsbury Group]]. Besides her breakdowns Virginia had suffered sexual molestation at the hands of her two-half brothers George and Gerald Duckworth. Virginia and her family often spend their summer holidays at Talland House in St Ives, Cornwall. St Ives alsow as the setting for her famous nóvel "To the lighthouse".
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| '''Education:'''
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| Virginia was educated at home from the resources of her father's huge library.
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| Later she studied Greek, Latin, German and History at King`s College London Ladie´s Department from 1897-1901. There she got in contact with reformers of women´s higher education.
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| '''Works:'''
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| Novels:
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| ''The Voyage Out'' (1915),'' Night and Day'' (1919), ''Jacob's Room'' (1922), ''Mrs Dalloway'' (1925), ''To the Lighthouse'' (1927), ''Orlando'' (1928), ''The Waves'' (1931), ''The Years'' (1937), ''Between the Acts'' (1941).
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| Countless essays and newspaper articles on literature and culture. Very influential are ''A Room of One's Own'' (1929), an extended essay on women and women's writing.
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| Virginia Woolf´s novels were considered experimental, but, in contrast to James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' (1922) more accessible. Although she did not invent the [[stream of consciousness]], she experimented with it and finetuned its form. Her emphasis was not on plot or characterization but on a character's consciousness (cf. Virginia Woolf "Modern Fiction" (1919) and revised as "Modern Novels" in 1925). In this essay Virginia Woolf points out that it is important for modern writers to free from conventions and instead to record impressions in an unordered way to be closer to reality. Virginia is not interested in large plot events, but in smaller things and also wants to look into the working of the mind (character focalization).
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| '''Sources''' | | '''Sources''' |
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| Bennett, Joan. Virginia Woolf. Her Art as a Novelist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964. | | Bennett, Joan. ''Virginia Woolf. Her Art as a Novelist''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964. |
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| Bloom, Harold. ''Virginia Woolf''. Chelsea: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005. | | Bloom, Harold. ''Virginia Woolf''. Chelsea: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005. |
Née Adeline Virginia Stephen. 1882-1941. Writer, journalist, smoker. Married to Leonard Woolf.
Sources
Bennett, Joan. Virginia Woolf. Her Art as a Novelist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.
Bloom, Harold. Virginia Woolf. Chelsea: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.
Stape, John Henry. Virginia Woolf. Interviews and recollections. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91c/chapter13.html
http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/