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Virginia Woolf's Life:
Virginia Woolf was born in 1881 in London to Sir Leslie and Julia Stephen. She was one member of a large family. She was educated by her father, differently from her brothers. She was educated to do the "housewife" and she learnt Greek from Walter Pater's sister. When her father died, she moved with her sister and two brothers and She became member of "The Bloomsbury Group", where she met Lytton Strachey. She married Leonard Woolf, but she fell passionately in love with the poet Vita Sackville-West. The relationship between the two women, produced "Orlando", 1928. Virginia Wolf and her husband founded the Hogarth Press, from which they published Eliot's Poems, the English translation on Freud. She committed suicide the 28th March 1941, because she has been subject to periods of nervous depression. Virginia Woolf is one of the great innovative novelists of the 20th Century: she reacted against literary tradition with fiction, redefining our concept of it. She developed her own style, which handled the stream of consciousness with a poetic flow, brought into prose fiction the rhythms and the imagery of lyric poetry, exploring problems of personal identity and relationship as well as the importance of time, change and memory. She wrote many novels and short stories, but also biographies and hundreds of book reviews and long essays. Her novels: Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Between the Acts. Her essays: A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, The Common Reader.
Virginia Woolf was born in 1881 in London to Sir Leslie and Julia Stephen. She was one member of a large family. She was educated by her father, differently from her brothers. She was educated to do the "housewife" and she learnt Greek from Walter Pater's sister. When her father died, she moved with her sister and two brothers and She became member of "The Bloomsbury Group", where she met Lytton Strachey. She married Leonard Woolf, but she fell passionately in love with the poet Vita Sackville-West. The relationship between the two women, produced "Orlando", 1928. Virginia Wolf and her husband founded the Hogarth Press, from which they published Eliot's Poems, the English translation on Freud. She committed suicide the 28th March 1941, because she has been subject to periods of nervous depression. Virginia Woolf is one of the great innovative novelists of the 20th Century: she reacted against literary tradition with fiction, redefining our concept of it. She developed her own style, which handled the stream of consciousness with a poetic flow, brought into prose fiction the rhythms and the imagery of lyric poetry, exploring problems of personal identity and relationship as well as the importance of time, change and memory. She wrote many novels and short stories, but also biographies and hundreds of book reviews and long essays. Her novels: Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Between the Acts. Her essays: A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, The Common Reader.