Woolf
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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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Far from luxuriating in a serene and pristine writing environment, Ms. Lewin reveals, Woolf worked amid “old nibs, bits of string, used matches, rusty paper-clips, crumpled envelopes, broken cigarette-holders, etc.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Ultimately it matters not how or where you write; as Virginia Woolf put it, “so long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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
Across its cliffs, moors and harbours, Cornwall continues to inspire creativity just as powerfully as it did for Graham, Woolf, du Maurier and Thompson.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
Thousands of fans surged toward Woolf and Seabiscuit.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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