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Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
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culture · English modernist writer (1882–1941) · novelist · essayist · autobiographer · short story writer · diarist · literary critic · publisher · writer · women's rights activist · author · also Virginia Woolf, Virginia Stephen, Virginia Adeline Woolf, Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, Virginia Stephen Woolf, Woolf
Born 25 January 1882 · Died 28 March 1941 · Q40909
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2026· 53 entries
Deccan Herald: Quote of the day by Virginia Woolf: “If you do not tell the truth about yourself…”
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lafolkargentina.com.ar: Un departamento en la casa donde nació Virginia Woolf en Londres sale a la venta por unos USD 2,6 millones
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BroadwayWorld: Video: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Production Trailer Released at STNJ
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Todo Cultura Vega Baja: Albatera, evento: Paseo junto a los escritores Julio Verne y Virginia Woolf
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TAPinto: ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ Explores Exploding Relationships
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NJ.com: N.J. Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Virginia Woolf’ is wonderful adaptation breathing new life | Review
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The Eastern Herald: Clarissa Brings Virginia Woolf to Lagos at TIFF as Neon Eyes December Awards Run
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nextmag.ca: TIFF review: Nigeria-set Virginia Woolf adaption “Clarissa” is a visual treat
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BroadwayWorld: Photos: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Opens at Shakespeare Theatre of NJ
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OkDiario: La importante reflexión de Virginia Woolf, escritora británica: «La belleza debe romperse a diario para per...
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Me Lo Dijo Pérez: Llega a San Francisco "WOF", una obra que une el clown con el universo de Virginia Woolf
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La Razón: La Virginia Woolf española frente a un señor cualquiera
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The Verde Independent: Film Festival presents ‘Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day’ premiere Sept. 11-16
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Radio Mitre: Virginia Woolf, escritora: “Uno no puede pensar bien, amar bien, dormir bien, si no ha comido bien"
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Accessible Hospitality Alliance: Hotel Café Royal Launches Literary Afternoon Tea Celebrating Wilde, Woolf and le Carré
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Literary Hub: Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him
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OkDiario: La acertada frase de Virginia Woolf, escritora: «Uno no puede pensar bien, amar bien, dormir bien, si no ha...
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El Comercio Perú: Cita del día, Virginia Woolf, escritora: “Algunos acuden a los sacerdotes; otros a la poesía; yo a mis amigos”
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Morocco World News: Spain at a Turning Point: Don Quixote and Virginia Woolf
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The Observer: Parodies, pranks and poking fun: exhibition reveals Virginia Woolf’s lighter side
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Vulture: Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day
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The Moveable Fest: Tina Gharavi on Seeing the Sky at the Limit in “Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day”
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PRIMETIMER: Virginia Woolf's Night & Day cast guide: Meet the full cast and characters of the comedy-drama
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“a hybrid of writing narrative and doing a crossword puzzle”
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“Kenny hangs in, but I know he”
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“I got about 50 pages into it and thought we don”
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“And I, of course, could not wait to get the hell out of there and live in a bigger and more dangerous and more interesting world. I couldn”
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“t good at, he has a fantasy that one day he”
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The Austin Chronicle: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | State Theatre | Film
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The Quinntessential Review: EdFringe Review: An Audience with Virginia Woolf: Writing One’s Mind
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Artnet: An Apartment in Virginia Woolf’s Childhood Home Just Hit the Market
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Diario de Avisos: Eclipses en la cultura: de Kubrick a Virginia Woolf, pasando por Frida Kahlo, Pink Floyd y Rubens
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Yahoo Life Singapore: A rare opportunity to live in Virginia Woolf's childhood home – take a look inside
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cbsnews.com: Prequel play to iconic Virginia Woolf novel to hold world premiere in Gloucester
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Yahoo: How a Gloucester theater is making a prequel to an iconic Virginia Woolf novel
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West End Best Friend: Full cast announced for WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? at @sohoplace
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Theatre-News.com: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf announces full company - Theatre-News.com
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Diario en Positivo: Eclipses y cultura: de Stephen King a Kubrick, Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo y más
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Reconquista Radios: Virginia Woolf, escritora inglesa: "No hay barrera, cerradura, ni cerrojo que puedas imponer a la libertad de mi mente"
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OkDiario: La reflexión de Virginia Woolf, escritora británica, sobre la autoestima: «No hay necesidad de ser otra per...
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EL PAÍS: La mujer peligrosa de la que se enamoró Virginia Woolf
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Fairy Powered Productions: FRONT ROW SEATS RELEASED AND FULL COMPANY ANNOUNCED FOR EDWARD ALBEE'S WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? STARRING GILLIAN ANDERSON AND BILLY CRUDUP OPENING @SOHOPLACE ON 21 SEPTEMBER 2026
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theatreweekly.com: 5,500 front row seats released as full company announced for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Ticketmaster UK: Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup to star in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in the West End
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The Conversation: De Homero a Virginia Woolf: un recorrido por los eclipses, presagios y símbolos en la literatura
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WhatsOnStage: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup announces full cast and front row seats
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The Times of India: Virginia Woolf's Night & Day - Official Trailer
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West End Theatre: Josh Dylan and Phoebe Horn join Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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BroadwayWorld: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? to Release Front Row Seats @sohoplace
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BroadwayWorld: ¿QUIÉN LE TIENE MIEDO A VIRGINIA WOOLF? lanza entradas de primera fila en @sohoplace
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The Times of India: Virginia Woolf's Night & Day - Official Trailer
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2024· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “British writer Virginia Woolf said: "There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile…” Unproven.
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2023· 1 entry
“Вулф В. Своя комната. — М.: Манн, Иванов и Фербер, 2023. — 144 с. — ISBN 978-5-00146-327-6”
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2022· 2 entries
“Citation choisie pour le 11 mars 2022.”
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An opera of The Hours by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Greg Pierce premiered at the Metropolitan Opera to acclaim
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2019· 2 entries
“in The Writer on Her Work edited by Janet Sternburg (2000) How begin to describe the permission Woolf’s feminism and artistry bestowed on the hopeful beginner? For me, her work, which never panders, was a reliable antidote to literary men’s scorn or disregard. Her novels demonstrated that despised domesticity, including dinner parties and shopping, could be transformed into unrivaled art. Alix Kates Shulman “Five Books that Made me a Feminist”
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Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Woolf for 1929
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2018· 2 entries
“Citation choisie pour le 15 juin 2018.”
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To erect a statue of Woolf in Richmond-upon-Thames, where she lived for 10 years
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2014· 2 entries
Artist Kabe Wilson produced a novella and artwork entitled Of One Woman Or So, created over five years by rearranging the words of Woolf's 1929 essay A Room of One's Own
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Was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk, a walk of fame in San Francisco's Castro neighbourhood noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields"
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2013· 1 entry
Woolf was honoured by her alma mater King's College London with the opening of the Virginia Woolf Building on Kingsway, together with an exhibit depicting her accompanied by the quotation "London itself perpetually attra
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2011· 1 entry
“Never more so than in 2011, I feel like a certain interiority is what the novel can offer that no other medium can. I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. The novel remains the most effective means of telling a reader what it”
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2010· 1 entry
And first performed by Moving Stories Theatre Company
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2005· 2 entries
“Contos completos - Página 15, Virginia Woolf, traduzido por Leonardo Fróes, Editora Cosac Naify, 2005, ISBN 8575034006, 9788575034002 - 472 páginas”
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“Contos completos - página 27, Virginia Woolf, traduzido por Leonardo Fróes, Editora Cosac Naify, 2005, ISBN 8575034006, 9788575034002, 472 páginas”
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2004· 1 entry
“Вулф В. Миссис Дэллоуэй. На маяк. Орландо. Волны. Флаш. Рассказы. Эссе. — М.: Пушкинская библиотека, 2004. — 901 с. — (Золотой фонд мировой классики). — 5000 экз. — ISBN 5-17-022770-1”
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2002· 1 entry
A film version of the novel was released, starring Nicole Kidman as Woolf
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1994· 1 entry
“We think back through our mothers.”
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1992· 1 entry
As a film also called Orlando, starring Tilda Swinton
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1984· 1 entry
“Em Teresa de Lauretis, Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984), p. 6.”
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1979· 2 entries
“Women and Writing (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979), p. 54. Also in The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932. Hogarth Press. 1986. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-7012-0670-3.”
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“Women and writing - página 60, Virginia Woolf, Michèle Barrett, editor Michèle Barrett, Women's Press, 1979, 198 páginas”
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1976· 1 entry
In the autobiographical anthology Moments of Being
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1957· 1 entry
“A room of one's own - página 17, Virginia Woolf, Editora Harcourt, Brace & World, 1957, ISBN 0156787326, 9780156787321, 117 páginas”
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1953· 1 entry
“A writer's diary: being extracts from the diary of Virginia Woolf - página 76, (The works of Virginia Woolf); Virginia Woolf, editor Leonard Woolf, Editora Hogarth Press, 1953, 372 páginas”
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1946· 1 entry
After publishing 527 titles, and Hogarth is now an imprint of Penguin Random House
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1941· 4 entries
Died 1941-03-28.
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“The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
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“Diary entry January 15, 1941.”
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“Letter to Leonard Woolf (28 March 1941), from The Virginia Woolf Reader (1984) edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, p. 369, ISBN 0156935902”
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1940· 1 entry
A number of factors appeared to overwhelm her
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1939· 3 entries
“A Sketch of the Past" (written 1939, published posthumously)”
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“Essay "Lewis Carroll" (1939); reprinted in The Moment, and Other Essays (1948)”
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“Essay "Lewis Carroll" (1939)”
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1938· 2 entries
“("in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." - Three Guinees, 1938, chapter 3)”
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Virginia sold her share of the company to John Lehmann, who had started working for Hogarth Press seven years previously
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1937· 1 entry
“Entry of 11 July 1937, in A Writer's Diary (1953)”
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1931· 1 entry
An edited version of which would later be published as "Professions for Women"
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1929· 2 entries
“("Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." - A Room of One's Own, 1929, chapter 2)”
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“Si crede di avere imparato a scrivere in fretta e non è vero. E, cosa strana, non scrivo con gusto o con piacere perché devo concentrarmi troppo. Non mi viene filato, naturale, ma lo metto giù faticosamente, frase per frase. (11 ottobre 1929)”
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1928· 4 entries
Woolf took a grassroots approach to informing and inspiring feminism
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“Sì, è finito – Orlando – iniziato l'8 ottobre come uno scherzo, e ora un po' troppo lungo per i miei gusti. Può anche darsi che caschi per non saper da che parte stare: troppo lungo per essere uno scherzo e troppo frivolo per essere un libro serio. Ma respingo tutto questo dal mio spirito avido soltanto di verdi campi, di sole, di vino; di starmene seduta a non far niente. (22 marzo 1928)”
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“Penso come contiamo poco, come tutti contino poco; com'è travolgente e frenetica e imperiosa la vita, e come tutte queste moltitudini annaspano per restare a galla. (27 ottobre 1928)”
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“Eppure l'unica vita eccitante è quella immaginaria. Appena metto in moto le rotelle nella mia testa non ho più molto bisogno di soldi o di vestiti, e neppure di una credenza, un letto a Rodmell o un divano. (21 aprile 1928)”
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1927· 4 entries
“Questo insaziabile desiderio di scrivere qualcosa prima di morire, questo senso divorante della febbrile fugacità della vita, che mi fa avvinghiare, come un uomo a una roccia, alla mia sola ancora. (20 dicembre 1927)”
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“Nella mia mente c'è un'irrazionale scala di valori. (20 dicembre 1927)”
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“Avevo appena l'idea di che cosa parlasse quel racconto. Ma il sollievo di volgere la mente in quella direzione fu tale che mi sentii più felice di quanto non fossi stata per mesi. (22 ottobre 1927)”
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Her next novel, To the Lighthouse, was published, and the following year she lectured on Women & Fiction at Cambridge University and published Orlando in October
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1926· 1 entry
“Ho la grande e stupefacente sensazione di qualche cosa, lassù, che è «quello». Non mi riferisco alla bellezza, non esattamente. È che la cosa basta in se stessa: soddisfacente; compiuta. È la sensazione della mia straordinarietà, di me che cammino sulla terra: dell'infinita stranezza della condizione umana. (27 febbraio 1926)”
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1925· 1 entry
“Io non amo il mio prossimo. Li detesto tutti. Li rasento appena. Lascio che si rompano su di me come gocce di pioggia sporca. (27 giugno 1925)”
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1924· 2 entries
“Se non vivessimo audacemente, prendendo il toro per le corna e tremando sui precipizi, non saremmo mai depressi, senza dubbio; ma già saremmo appassiti, vecchi, rassegnati al destino. (2 agosto 1924)”
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“Con quanta interezza vivo nella mia immaginazione; come dipendo assolutamente da zampilli di pensiero che mi vengono mentre cammino, mentre mi siedo; cose che roteano nella mia mente, componendovi un incessante corteo, che dovrebbe essere la mia felicità. (7 settembre 1924)”
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1923· 1 entry
“I personaggi non devono essere altro che punti di vista: bisogna evitare la personalità a qualunque costo. [...] Appena si specifica l'età, i capelli ecc., s'insinua nel libro qualcosa di frivolo o di trascurabile. (5 settembre 1923)”
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1922· 2 entries
“Diary entry on James Joyce's Ulysses (16 August 1922), quoted in Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary (1953; 1965), p. 47”
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“Ho terminato l'Ulisse e mi sembra un colpo mancato. Genio ne ha, direi, ma di una purezza inferiore. Il libro è prolisso. È torbido. È pretenzioso. È plebeo, non solo nel senso ovvio, ma nel senso letterario. Uno scrittore di classe, voglio dire, rispetta troppo la scrittura per ammettere le trovate, le sorprese, le bravure. (6 settembre 1922)”
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1921· 2 entries
“A volte mi piacerebbe annotare quello che la gente dice, invece di descriverla. Purtroppo dicono così poco. (26 maggio 1921)”
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And began to sell directly to booksellers
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1920· 1 entry
“Perché mai è così tragica la vita; così simile a una striscia di marciapiede che costeggia un abisso. Guardo giù; ho le vertigini; mi chiedo come farò ad arrivare alla fine. (25 ottobre 1920)”
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1919· 1 entry
“Se il mio cervello, distratto da un'ansia o da altra causa, deve distogliersi dalla carta bianca, è come un bimbo sperduto, che gira per casa e siede a piangere sull'ultimo gradino. (5 dicembre 1919)”
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1918· 2 entries
“t say; I find him the best of critics for that reason. Suddenly out comes the obvious thing that one has overlooked. 6 November 1919 This last week L. has been having a little temperature in the evening, due to malaria, and that due to a visit to Oxford; a place of death and decay. I”
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“La noia è il dominio legittimo dei filantropi. (10 settembre 1918)”
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1916· 1 entry
Leonard and Virginia found a farmhouse about four miles away that they thought would be ideal for her sister
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1915· 2 entries
“Diary entry (9 January 1915), quoted in The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume I: 1915–1919, ed. Anne Olivier Bell (1977), p. 13”
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“The Voyage Out (1915), Ch. XI”
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1912· 1 entry
And together they established the Hogarth Press in 1917, which published much of her work
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1910· 1 entry
1912, and 1913 at Burley House at 15 Cambridge Park, Twickenham, described as "a private nursing home for women with nervous disorder" run by Miss Jean Thomas
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1907· 1 entry
Woolf also wrote her first mock-biographical set of three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet, titled The Life of Violet, after Violet Dickinson, her first completed experim
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1906· 1 entry
Marked a "decade of deaths" that ended her childhood and adolescence
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1905· 1 entry
Woolf began writing for The Times Literary Supplement (TLS); in 2019, the TLS would publish a collection of her essays entitled Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read, which originally appeared anonymously, as did
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1904· 4 entries
Woolf and her siblings moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury district, where she became a founding member of the influential Bloomsbury Group
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Provoked her most alarming collapse, on 10 May, when she threw herself out of a window and was briefly institutionalised under the care of her father's friend, the eminent psychiatrist George Savage
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Leonard left Britain for a civil service position in Ceylon, but returned for a year's leave in 1911 after letters from Lytton Strachey, describing Virginia's beauty, enticed him back
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And rose to prominence during the interwar period with novels including Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928)
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1899· 1 entry
Became part of an intellectual circle of young men, including Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf (whom Virginia would later marry), and Saxon Sydney-Turner
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1897· 3 entries
There was no counterbalance to control George's predation, and his nighttime prowling
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Virginia received private tutoring in Classical Greek and Latin
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Virginia began her first diary, which she kept for the next twelve years
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1895· 3 entries
Precipitated what Virginia later identified as her first "breakdown"—for months afterwards she was nervous and agitated, and she wrote very little for the subsequent two years
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The loss having a profound lifelong effect
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"the greatest disaster that could happen", precipitated a crisis for which their family doctor, Dr
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-01-25.
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