English modernist writer (1882–1941)
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She bent the novel inward, made it track thought itself — not what people said or did, but the flicker and flow underneath. That formal break, plus the essay arguing a woman needs money and a room to write, locked her into the canon and the arguments around it.
Born in 1882 into a crowded, intellectual South Kensington household — her father Leslie Stephen, her sister the painter Vanessa Bell — Woolf was taught at home in classics and Victorian literature, then studied at King's College London. After her father's death in 1904 she moved to Bloomsbury, became a founding member of the group that took the district's name, and married Leonard Woolf in 1912. Together they started the Hogarth Press in 1917, which published her own work. She rose through the interwar years with Mrs Dalloway in 1925, To the Lighthouse in 1927, Orlando in 1928, and the femini…
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Dearest, I want to tell you that you have given me complete happiness. No one could have done more than you have done. Please believe that.
I bought the blue paper book [Ulysses], & read it here one summer I think with spasms of wonder, of discovery, & then again with long lapses of immense boredom.
Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties — one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened.
The Reverend C. L. Dodgson had no life. He passed through the world so lightly that he left no print. He melted so passively into Oxford that he is invisible.
For some reason, we know not what, his childhood was sharply severed. It lodged in him whole and entire. He could not disperse it.
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