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Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer (–)

This article is about the British modernist author. For the American children's author, see Virginia Euwer Wolff. For the British rock band, see Virginia Wolf.

"Woolf" redirects here. For other uses, see Woolf (disambiguation).

Adeline Virginia Woolf (;née&#;Stephen; 25 January &#;&#; 28 March ) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London. She was the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight that included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From to , she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London. There, she studied classics and history, coming into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement.

After her father's death in , the Stephen family moved from Kensington to the more bohemianBloomsbury, where, in conjunction with the brothers' intellectual friends, they formed the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group. In , she married Leonard

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Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in to an upper class family in London, England. Her mother, Julia Stephen, and her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, both had children from previous marriages resulting in a rather large blended family. Woolf&#;s siblings included Thoby, Adrian, and Vanessa, along with half siblings Laura Stephen, George Duckworth, Stella Duckworth, and Gerald Duckworth. The family resided at 22 Hyde Park Gate in Kensington. Julia Stephen, who had gained notoriety as a model for artists such as Edward-Burne Jones, was a devoted and self-sacrificing matriarch (Goldman). Leslie Stephen was a renowned editor, literary critic and Alpinist with an influential group of intellectual friends, including poet Thomas Hardy and author Henry James. While she was growing up, Woolf did not attend school. However, she had a tutor who educated her in English literature and the classics. Her father took an interest in her education as well, and giving Woolf and her siblings private lessons in which he recommended literature and worked on improving their writing. Woolf’s childhood was not altogether unhappy; however, she was sexually abused by her half-brothers and her mother Julia died in when Woolf was only 13 years o