Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941), Novelist and critic; sister of Vanessa BellVirginia Woolf (née Stephen)
Sitter in 64 portraits
A central figure in the Bloomsbury group of writers, artists and intellectuals. In 1905, with her sister Vanessa, she hosted Thursday evening gatherings at 46 Gordon Square that formed the hub of Bloomsbury. Despite intermittent bouts of mental illness she was a major contributor to the development of the novel form in literature. Many of her novels, notably Night and Day, Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, pioneered the use of the interior monologue, or 'stream of consciousness' and transformed ideas about structure, plot and characterisation. Her essay A Room of One's Own has become a classic of feminist literature. She committed suicide in 1941.
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Virginia Woolf; Robert Bridges
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Virginia Woolf; Robert Bridges
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Sir Philip Bouverie Bowyer Nichols; Virginia Woolf; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Virginia Woolf; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Sir Maurice Bowra; Virginia Woolf
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Sir Maurice Bowra; Virginia Woolf
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Sir Maurice Bowra; Virginia Woolf
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Related People
- Julian Bell (nephew)
- Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell (nephew)
- Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) (sister)
- Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell) (niece)
- (Karin) Judith Henderson (née Stephen) (niece)
- Adrian Stephen (brother)
- Sir James Stephen (grandfather)
- Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Bt (uncle)
- Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth) (mother)
- Sir Leslie Stephen (father)
- Thoby Stephen (brother)
- Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen) (niece)
- Leonard Sidney Woolf (husband)
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