Virginia Woolf, 1882 - 1941
1902 portrait by George Charles Beresford
Born: 25 January 1882, London, England, UK
Died: 28 March 1941, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK
Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, her father was a noted man of letters and her mother was from a family in the publishing business. Both of her parents had survived their first spouses, between siblings and half siblings she was one of eight. Both parents were literary figures, noted authors were frequent guests, and the house contained a large library. She was schooled by her parents. She suffered several nervous breakdowns, the first following her mother's 1895 death, and lived with what would probably now be diagnosed as bipolar disorder. A group of writers known as the Bloomsbury Group met regularly in her sister's home for some years, she married one of them, Leonard Woolf, in 1912. In addition to their writing, the Woolfs began a publishing company of some success. In her last depression, Woolf filled the pockets of her overcoat with stones and waded into the River Ouse.
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- A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. permalink
Virginia Woolf - A light here required a shadow there. permalink
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (1927) - A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. permalink
Virginia Woolf - A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one. permalink
Virginia Woolf - Orlando: A Bilgraphy (1928) - A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her. permalink
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (1927) - A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, thought the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. permalink
Virginia Woolf - Orlando: A Bilgraphy (1928) - A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. permalink
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own (1929) - Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. permalink
Virginia Woolf - Arrange whatever pieces come your way. permalink
Virginia Woolf - As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. permalink
Virginia Woolf - Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust. permalink
Virginia Woolf - Orlando: A Bilgraphy (1928) - Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. permalink
Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room (1922) - Books are the mirrors of the soul. permalink
Virginia Woolf - Between the Acts (1941) - Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. permalink
Virginia Woolf - But can we go to posterity with a sheaf of loose pages, or ask the readers of those days, with the whole of literature before them, to sift our enormous rubbish heaps for our tiny pearls? Such are the questions which the critics might lawfully put to their companions at table, the novelists and poets. permalink
Virginia Woolf - "How It Strikes a Contemporary", The Common Reader (1925)
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