Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941

Biographical note

Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was a English author and feminist. Born Adeline Virginia Stephens in London she was brought up and educated at home. In 1895 following the death of her mother she had the first of numerous nervous breakdowns. Following the death of her father (Sir Leslie Stephen, a literary critic) in 1904, she moved with her sister and two brothers to a house in Bloomsbury. She began writing professionally in 1905, initially for the Times Literary Supplement. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a civil servant and political theorist. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915. Between the wars, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury group. In March 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse, near her Rodmell residence. She had published ten (?) novels and over 500 essays.

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Works

  • The Voyage Out [1915]
  • Night and Day [1919]
  • Jacob's Room [1920]
  • Monday or Tuesday [1921]
  • Mrs Dalloway [1925]
  • The Common Reader, First Series [1925]
  • To the Lighthouse [1927]
  • Orlando [1928]
  • A Room of One's Own [1929]
  • The Waves [1931]
  • Flush: A Biography [1933]
  • The Common Reader, Second Series [1925]
  • The Years [1937]
  • Three Guineas [1938]
  • Between the Acts [1941]
  • The Death of the Moth and Other Essays [1942]
    1. The Death of the Moth
    2. Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car
    3. Three Pictures
    4. Old Mrs. Grey
    5. Street Haunting: A London Adventure
    6. Jones and Wilkinson
    7. “Twelfth Night” At the Old Vic
    8. Madame de Sévigné
    9. The Humane Art
    10. Two Antiquaries: Walpole and Cole
    11. The Rev William Cole
    12. The Historian and “The Gibbon”
    13. Reflections at Sheffield Place
    14. The Man at the Gate
    15. Sara Coleridge
    16. “Not One of Us”
    17. Henry James: 1. Within the Rim
    18. Henry James: 2. The Old Order
    19. Henry James: 3. The Letters of Henry James
    20. George Moore
    21. The Novels of E. M. Forster
    22. Middlebrow
    23. The Art of Biography
    24. Craftsmanship
    25. A Letter to a Young Poet
    26. Why?
    27. Professions for Women
    28. Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
  • A Haunted House and other short stories [1944]
    1. A Haunted House
    2. Monday or Tuesday
    3. An Unwritten Novel
    4. The String Quartet
    5. Kew Gardens
    6. The Mark on the Wall
    7. The New Dress
    8. The Shooting Party
    9. Lappin and Lapinova
    10. Solid Objects
    11. The Lady in the Looking–Glass
    12. The Duchess and the Jeweller
    13. Moments of Being
    14. The Man Who Loved His Kind
    15. The Searchlight
    16. The Legacy
    17. Together and Apart
    18. A Summing Up

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