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 has always been the case that the poor, on average, live shorter lives than the rich, but the gap has widened over time,” Woolf said.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Orlando, by Virginia Woolf: “The last book I read.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
Virginia Woolf then got into the act, criticizing the BBC Home Service as middlebrow, despite its newsreaders’ plummy Oxbridge accents.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
However, we wondered whether it owed a little too much to the techniques of Mrs. Woolf.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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