Virginia Woolf
English writer and modernist pioneer
Birthday Connections
January 25
3 people were born on this day
πBiography
Virginia Woolf was one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. She was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group.
πMajor Works & Achievements
- β¦Wrote 'Mrs. Dalloway'
- β¦Wrote 'To the Lighthouse'
- β¦Pioneer of modernism
- β¦Feminist classic 'A Room of One's Own'
π¬Famous Quotes
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged.
"I am rooted, but I flow.
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