About Virginia Woolf
1882 – 1941
English author and essayist considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Known for stream-of-consciousness writing and pioneering essays on women and literature.
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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
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