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Novelist and essayist · 1882–1941 · Art & Literature
Reinvented what a novel could do with time and consciousness, ran the Hogarth Press by hand, and argued that a woman writer needs money and a room.
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“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Woolf grew up in a literary Kensington household, largely self-taught in her father's library, and after his death moved to Bloomsbury with her siblings, where the circle that took the district's name formed. She and Leonard Woolf founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, setting type themselves; they published T. S. Eliot and Freud's English translations. Mrs Dalloway compresses a single June day, To the Lighthouse turns on a decade passing in a few pages of an empty house. A Room of One's Own, from lectures given at Cambridge women's colleges, ties women's writing to income and privacy. She had breakdowns throughout her life and drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.
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You can put that to the Virginia Woolf persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Virginia Woolf’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1882–1941, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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