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Virginia Woolf


Born
in Kensington, Middlesex, England
January 25, 1882

Died
March 28, 1941

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(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
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Average rating: 3.88 · 1,544,466 ratings · 126,041 reviews · 2,037 distinct worksSimilar authors
Mrs. Dalloway

3.77 avg rating — 374,176 ratings — published 1925 — 13 editions
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A Room of One’s Own

4.22 avg rating — 280,464 ratings — published 1929 — 2483 editions
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To the Lighthouse

3.81 avg rating — 225,684 ratings — published 1927 — 1715 editions
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Orlando

3.87 avg rating — 122,596 ratings — published 1928 — 1277 editions
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The Waves

4.14 avg rating — 56,790 ratings — published 1931 — 15 editions
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Flush

3.88 avg rating — 15,903 ratings — published 1933 — 436 editions
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Jacob's Room

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3.52 avg rating — 14,137 ratings — published 1922
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The Voyage Out

3.75 avg rating — 12,646 ratings — published 1915 — 533 editions
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Night and Day

3.76 avg rating — 10,436 ratings — published 1919 — 933 editions
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Between the Acts

3.60 avg rating — 9,316 ratings — published 1941 — 392 editions
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Quotes by Virginia Woolf  (?)
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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

Polls

August 2016 New School Group Read

 
  44 votes, 25.6%

 
  20 votes, 11.6%

1966, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 176 pages
 
  17 votes, 9.9%

1931, The Waves by Virginia Woolf, 297 pages
 
  16 votes, 9.3%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages
 
  15 votes, 8.7%

 
  14 votes, 8.1%

1963, The Collector by John Fowles, 282 pages
 
  12 votes, 7.0%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  9 votes, 5.2%

1990, Possession by A.S. Byatt, 555 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.7%

1996, The Beach by Alex Garland, 436 pages
 
  5 votes, 2.9%

1948, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, 320 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1949, The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr., 352 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1942, The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas, 528 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

1924, Precious Bane by Mary Webb, 328 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.6%

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