Facts about Virginia Woolf

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   Bloomsbury Group member Virginia Woolf was a central figure in the early 20th-century British literary and intellectual circle that included E.M. Forster and John Maynard Keynes.

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   Stream of consciousness narrative technique is central to Virginia Woolf's style, most famously demonstrated in Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.

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   Co-founder of the Hogarth Press with her husband Leonard Woolf in 1917, Virginia Woolf used it to publish her own works and those of T.S. Eliot.

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   In 1882, Woolf's mother Julia Stephen died when Virginia was just 13, an event that triggered the first of several severe mental health crises throughout her life.

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   Between 1915 and 1941, Virginia Woolf published nine novels including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando during her most productive decades.

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