Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was a British novelist, living and working in the early-to-mid 1900's. She was the author of several well known, at times experimental, novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and Orlando (see "Objects/Places"). She is almost as famous for the manner of both her life and her death as she is for her writing. She was born into an upper-middle class family in the latter years of the conservative Victorian period of English history and came of age both physically and intellectually in the more liberated Edwardian period. During this time, she became involved with a group of intellectuals, artists and writers who gathered frequently and regularly in Virginia's home and produced innovative works of creativity, research and philosophy. This group became known as "The Bloomsbury Group," named after the borough of London in which they lived (see "Important People - Bloomsbury...