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Virginia Woolf was a British modernist writer, best known for her novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). These novels employed a new stream of consciousness style of writing which gave a freshness and interest to her writings.
She was a prominent figure in inter-war literary circles and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.
Early life
She was born in London, in 1882. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a notable historian, author and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
Woolf virginia biography
Her mother Julia Stephen was also well connected in cultural circles and acted as a model for the Pre-Raphaelite artists and photographers.
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Virginia was educated at her Kensington home by her parents with her step-brothers and stepsisters.
She was quite a delicate child – ill-suited to the rough and tumble of ordinary schools. She grew up in a literary environment, she devoured many books from her father’s library. In particular, she g