Woolf
Americannoun
noun
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Leonard Sidney. 1880–1969, English publisher and political writer
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his wife, Virginia . 1882–1941, English novelist and critic. Her novels, which include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), and Between the Acts (1941), employ such techniques as the interior monologue and stream of consciousness
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It’s been 101 years since Virginia Woolf first published “Mrs Dalloway,” a novel about persnickety party hostess Clarissa Dalloway colliding with her former lovers, one male and one female.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
What would Woolf possibly have made of the spectacle of postwar America?
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
Virginia Woolf complained that Dickens compensated for weak plotting by “throwing another handful of people on the fire,” but the plot of Dickens’s 1865 novel, “Our Mutual Friend,” turns on death by water.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
A sea view which inspired the writer Virginia Woolf will be obscured by the development of a block of flats.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
Woolf didn’t need to tell his horse what to do.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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