Virginia Woolf

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One of my favourite authors is Virginia Woolf. She lived an interesting life and wrote fascinating books. I strongly recommend her books and books about her, like Quentin Bell's "Virginia Woolf". Orlando, To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, Flush, The Waves and Between the Acts are some of my favourites. Her book "The Voyage Out" is available on Internet.
  Virginia was a member of the Bloomsbury group, a set of authors and painters who met to exchange thoughts and ideas in the London of the twenties. Other members include Virginia's sister Vanessa Bell, Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Clive Bell, Vita Sackville-West, Leonard Woolf and others.
Virginia was troubled by repeated mental problems, and had to be put under guard several times. Among other things she wrote about her struggle against insanity in "Moments of Being", and some of her thoughts are published in her diarys and letters. Having tried to commit suicide a number of times, she drowned herself in the river Ouse outside her house.

Would you like to know more? Click here to read an essay I wrote in high school on Virginia Woolf, with Quentin Bell's "Virginia Woolf" as main source. Sorry there's no English translation yet.

For further information on Virginia Woolf - visit the Virginia Woolf Web, an excellent site dedicated to Virginia's life and work.

World Wide Woolf. Read an interesting essay on ”the construction of Virginia Woolf as cultural icon”, by Brenda R. Silver.