Mary holland virginia woolf biography

English modernist writer (–)

This article is about the British modernist author. For the American children's author, see Virginia Euwer Wolff. For the British rock band, see Virginia Wolf.

"Woolf" redirects here.

For other uses, see Woolf (disambiguation).

Adeline Virginia Woolf (;née&#;Stephen; 25 January &#;&#; 28 March ) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors.

Mary holland virginia woolf biography

She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London. She was the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight that included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell.

She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From to , she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London. There, she studied classics and history, coming into contact with early reformers of women'