Woolf
(Virginia), English writer (London 1882-Lewes, Sussex, 1941). She was Sir
Leslie Stephen daughter, one of the most important figures of Britain
Literature during XIX c. Since she was a child, she was in contact
with her father´s friends :G.Meredith, Th.Hardy and after,
when her father died she lived in the
Bloomsbury district in London and it started to instale in her house
lots of intellectuals which formed "The Bloomsbury Group": E.M. Forster,
L.Strachey, R. Fry,
J.M. Keynes. After publishing her first novel "The voyage out", 1915,
she and her husband (The economist Leonard Woolf) the editorial Hogarth
Press, which
showed to the public authors, such as Katherine Mansfield and T.S.
Eliot. Her second novel "The night and day", 1919 was not very succesful
but the volume of
short stories "Monday or Tuesday", 1921 had a good acceptance by the
critics. A few years after her originality was shown in the three novels
that made her a
celebrity "Jacob´s room", 1922, "Mrs Dalloway", 1925 and
"To the Lighthouse", 1927, narrations in which the action and the
intrigue have disappeared and the
most important thing is the changeable life and the colour of the universe.
After she published "Orlando" 1928, "The waves", 1931, "The years", 1937
and "Between
the acts", 1941. She gave a lot of importance to the delicate art and
refined. Her main essays of literary criticism, which contributed very
original ideas about the
classics. She published "Flush", 1933, an study about Roger Fry,
1940 and works defending women rights "Three guineas", 1938. The twentieth
of March of 1941,
she disappeared of her house and on the Thirtieth was found drowned,
probably she killed herself. In 1976 appeared an autobiography, one of
the most important
works of the Woolf world.
