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__Biography __ · Born in London on January 25th 1882 · Father was a famous scholar and philospher who obtained many literary occupations · Woolf fell deep into the world of literature due to her father’s influence. · She first published short journalistic pieces, and then longer reviews. She privately tried her hand at fiction. · In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a young writer and critic from Cambridge, England. · In 1917, her and her husband founded the Hogarth Press, and they favored young uknown writers when publishing works. · The effects of bi-polar disorder at times caused Woolf to take hiatuses in her work time. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">When Virginia was not depressed, she worked intensely for long hours at a time. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">She drowned herself in the River Ouse on March 28, 1941.

__Literary Contributions__ <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Best known for her novels <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Woolf also wrote revolutionary essays on artistic theory, literary history, women's writing, and the politics of power <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Considered a feminist <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In some of her well-known essays, she examines women and their struggles as artists <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">She is also considered one of the founders of modernism (1900’s) <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Modernistic writers, such as Woolf, discovered new ways to relate human experience in an uncertain time in history. (During World War I) <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Woolf utilized stream-of-consciousness to convey a character's interior monologue and to capture the irregularities and windings of thought. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Other modernist authors include: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Works __ <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A Room of One’s Own //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (1929); essay, considered a feminist work <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Three Guineas //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(1938); essay, also displays femisism <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Mrs. Dalloway __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(1925); novel <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">To the Lighthouse __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(1927); novel <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Jacob's Room __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(1922); novel <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Monday or Tuesday //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(1921); short story

__Works Cited__ <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">SparkNotes: Virginia Woolf: Context." //SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides//. Web. 21 Apr. 2010. <http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/woolf/context.html>.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">"Virginia Woolf Biography - Life, Family, Children, Death, History, Mother, Young, Old, Information, Born, House, Marriage, Time, Achievements, Sister." //Encyclopedia of World Biography//. Web. 21 Apr. 2010. <http://www.notablebiographies.com/We-Z/Woolf-Virginia.html>.

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