virginia woolf

     

(Aeline) Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

Trivia about virginia woolf

  • Literary history was shaped in 1905 when this female author moved from 22 Hyde Park to 46 Gordon Square
  • This author of "Orlando" based her 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" on the life & death of her brother Thoby
  • In an essay, she hoped that future women would have an income of 500 pounds a year "and rooms of our own"
  • Playwright Edward Albee asked "Who's afraid of" this respected British novelist
  • Her relationship with writer Vita Sackville-West would inspire the play "Vita and Virginia"
  • Nicole Kidman (in a prosthetic nose) portrayed "The Hours" of this author
  • Nicole Kidman spent "The Hours" in a fake nose as her
  • She introduced Mr. & Mrs. Dalloway in her first novel, "The Voyage Out"
  • "To the Lighthouse"
  • Her close friend Vita Sackville-West inspired the gender-bender title character of her 1928 novel "Orlando"
  • This author of "Orlando" said, "Of all the great writers" Jane "is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness"
  • Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, this "To The Lighthouse" author was a leader of the Bloomsbury Group
  • Like her contemporary James Joyce, this author of "To The Lighthouse" used stream of consciousness
  • This author of "To the Lighthouse" became manic depressive after her mother's death in 1895
  • One of England's first abstract painters, Vanessa Bell was the sister of this Bloomsbury Group author
  • Mary Beton is the imaginary speaker in her essay "A Room of One's Own"
  • This British author seen here first "Bloom"ed in 1882
  • Money & "A Room of One's Own" are needed if a woman is to be a writer, she asserted in a 1929 essay
  • This member of the Bloomsbury literary group drowned herself March 28, 1941
  • This British novelist & essayist thought human character changed "on or about December 1910"
  • This British author dedicated her 1928 novel "Orlando" to Vita Sackville-West
  • We don't know "Who's Afraid of" reading her first novel, "The Voyage Out"
  • British book babe who hosted the Bloomsbury Group
  • In her 1929 feminist essay "A Room of One's Own", she paid tribute to women writers
  • "Jacob's Room" & "A Room of One's Own" are by this member of the Bloomsbury Group
  • Orlando is the title hero/heroine of this author's 1928 time-traveling, gender-bending novel
  • This "The Waves" authoress thought "Surely it was time someone invented a new plot"
  • In 1941, before taking her final dip, she wrote her sister Vanessa, "I am certain now that I am going mad again"
  • "The Window" & "Time Passes" are sections of her stream-of-consciousness novel "To the Lighthouse"
  • She wrote, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"
  • Her "To the Lighthouse" revolves around visits by the Ramsay family to its summer home on the Isle of Skye
  • "Old Bloomsbury" is a section in "Moments of Being", a collection of reminiscences by this writer
  • Tilda Swinton went on a gender-bender in 1992's "Orlando", based on this writer's 1928 novel
  • This novelist has Clarissa Dalloway reexamine her life choices in between dealing with last-minute party details
  • In 2007 a new play based on her 80-year-old novel "To the Lighthouse" lit up the stage at the Berkeley Rep
  • The fashionable but suffering Clarissa Dalloway