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Virginia Woolf

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VIRGINIA WOOLF, 1929 (by unknown photographer)
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Born
London, England, 1882

Died
Lewes, East Sussex, 1841

Publications
Novels, stories, essays, biographies, memoirs, diaries, letters

Writing languages
English

Writing places
Bloomsbury, London, England; Sussex

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Literature

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

To the Lighthouse (1927)

The Waves (1931)

Novels

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

To the Lighthouse (1927)

Orlando (1928)

The Waves (1931)

Stories

• "The Mark on the Wall" (1917)

• "Kew Gardens" (1919)

British Literature

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

To the Lighthouse (1927)

Orlando (1928)

The Waves (1931)

The Years (1938)

Works published in book form or presented on stage

The Voyage Out, novel, 1915

Two Stories, stories, 1917

Including "The Mark on the Wall"

Night and Day, novel, 1919

Modern Fiction, essays, 1915

Monday or Tuesday,story collection, 1921

Including "A Haunted House", "A Society", "Monday or Tuesday", "An Unwritten Novel", "The String Quartet", "Blue & Green", "Kew Gardens", "The Mark on the Wall"

Jacob's Room, novel, 1922

Mrs Dalloway, novel, 1925

The Common Reader, essay collection, 1925

To the Lighthouse, novel, 1927

Orlando, novel, 1928

A Room of One's Own, essay, 1929

On Being Ill, essay, 1930

The Waves, novel, 1931

The London Scene, essay collection, 1931

Flush: A Biography, nonfiction novel, 1933

Freshwater: A Comedy, play, 1935, written 1923

The Years, novel, 1937

Three Guineas, essay, 1938

Roger Fry: A Biography, biography, 1940

Between the Acts, novel, 1941

The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, essay collection, 1942

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories, story collection, 1944

"A Haunted House", "Monday or Tuesday", "An Unwritten Novel", "The String Quartet", "Kew Gardens", "The Mark on the Wall", "The New Dress", "The Shooting Party", "Lappin and Lappinova", "Solid Objects", "The Lady in the Looking-Glass", "The Duchess and the Jeweller", "Moments of Being", "The Man who Loved his Kind", "The Searchlight", "The Legacy", "A Summing Up"

The Moment and Other Essays, essay collection, 1947

The Captain's Death Bed And Other Essays, essay collection, 1950

A Writer's Diary, diary, 1953

Granite and Rainbow, essay colklection, 1958

Collected Essays, essay collection in four volumes, 1967

Mrs. Dalloway's Party, story collection, 1973

Moments of Being, autobiographical essay collection, 1976

Letters of Virginai Woolf, letters in six volumes, 1975–1980

The Flight of the Mind: Letters 1888–1912

The Question of Things Happening: Letters 1913–1922

A Change of Perspective: Letters 1923–1928

A Reflection of the Other Person: Letters 1929–1931

The Sickle Side of the Moon: Letters 1932–1935

Leave the Letters Till We're Dead: Letters 1936–1941

Books and Portraits, essay collection, 1978

Women and Writing, essay collection, 1979

The Complete Shorter Fiction, story collection, 1985

A Moment's Liberty: the shorter diary, diary, 1990

Passionate Apprentice, journals, 1990

Travels with Virginia Woolf, travel diary, 1993

 

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