'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves
Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. After her father's death
in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to
Bloomsbury and became the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This
informal collective of artists and writers exerted a powerful
influence over early twentieth-century British culture.
In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social
reformer. Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was
published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room
(1922). Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now
regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to
The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of
literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography. On 28
March 1941, a few months before the publication of her final novel,
Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf committed suicide.
Clear, bright, burnished, at once marvellously accurate and subtly
connotative. The pure, delicate sensibility found in this language
and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry
*New York Times*
As a reader, as a writer, I constantly return, for the lyricism of
it, the melancholy, the humanity
*Independent*
It is so different from any other novel I have read that
description is pointless. Suffice to say that it creates an
entirely new way of writing about what goes on in the human mind
and how those minds interact with one another
*New Statesman*
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