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Virginia Woof (1882-1941)

Life:

Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882, to the parents of Lelsie and Julia Stephen. The third child of Lelsie and Julie Stephen. For her parents it was their second marriage,the household involved the children of three marriages. Julia had three children from her first husband, Herbert Duckworth: George Duckworth (1868–1934), Stella Duckworth (1869–1897), and Gerald Duckworth. (1870–1937). Leslie had one daughter from his first wife, Minny Thackeray: Laura Makepeace Stephen (1870–1945), Leslie and Julia had four children together: Vanessa Stephen(1879–1961), Thoby Stephen (1880–1906), Virginia, and Adrian Stephen (1883–1948) who was mentally disabled and lived with the family until she was able to live on her on in 1891. In Virginia Woolf childhood she was a keen hunter of butterflies, with her brothers and sisters she would smear tree trunks.She was very un-eduacted. Her father home-schooled her. She never went to a university. She tutored at one at a earlier age. Her half brother messed with her, she wrote a book about it called A Sketch From The Past.

Time Period: She died in Rachmell Sussex, England, March 28, 1941, In 1912 Virginia Woolf married Leonard Woolf Which he was also a man of letters, they was married for 30 years. In 1904 Woolf started work as a tutor at Morley College. She was bery active in the campaign for women's suffrage.Was a member of the people suffrage federalism. In 1926 Virginia Woolf contributed an introduction to Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women by julia Margaret Cameron. By early 1905 she had recovered from illness to rejoin her family in the free and unconvential home in Bloomsbury. Woolf began writing professionally in 1905 for the Times Literary supplement. The period from 1904 to 1911 served as the young writers apprenticeship and the young woman's maturation.

Works:

1. A Voyage Out 2. A Sketch Of The Past 3.Night and Day 4. Jacobs Room 5. Mrs. Dalloway 6.To the Lighthouse 7. A Room of One's Own 8.The Waves 9.The Years 10. Three Guineas



Famous Quotes:

"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out."

"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."

Sources:

"Virginia Woolf. "Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. 30 Mar,2009 [|http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf].

"The International Virginia Woolf Society. "__University of Toronto.__ 30 Mar, 2009" []

"Virginia Woolf-her Life and Works. __Software Programs and books for writing__ __and studying skills-Mantex Information__ __Design Index Page.__ 30 Mar, 2009 .

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A Summary of Work:

The Voyage Out: The Novel is concerning the main character Helen Ambrose's departure from London, Where she is leaving her to young children, Because her and her husband Ridley Ambrose are sailing to a resort on the South America coast. where they will spend the winter season.