“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”

— Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)

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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