Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf  (born January 25, 1882 in London ,  March 28,  1941 at Rodmell near Lewes , Sussex , born Adeline Virginia Stephen ) was a British writer and publisher . She came from a wealthy intellectual family, which had numerous contacts with men of letters. As a teenager, she experienced the Victorian restrictions on girls and women. She was an early literary critic and essayistactive; her career as a novelist began in 1915 with the novel The Voyage Out (The trip out) . In the late 1920s, she was a successful and internationally known writer. Woolf was rediscovered in the 1970s when her essay A Room of One’s Own ( A Room of One’s Own ) in 1929 as one of the most quoted texts of the new women’s movement was. Alongside Gertrude Stein, her avant-garde work makes her one of the most important authors of classical modernism.