Virginia Woolf

About the author

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) stands as one of the most influential modernist writers of the twentieth century, celebrated for pioneering stream-of-consciousness narration. Born into an affluent, intellectual London family, she was educated at home before attending King's College London. After her father's death in 1904, she settled in Bloomsbury and became a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group.

With her husband Leonard Woolf she established the Hogarth Press in 1917. Her major works — Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One's Own — remain cornerstones of both modernist and feminist literary traditions.