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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Famous for its all-white garden designed by Vita Sackville-West, and for inspiring “Orlando,” by Sackville-West’s lover Virginia Woolf, Knole also has a Reynolds Room of Georgian portraits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 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
As for Woolf, her status as a feminist heroine may be somewhat dimmed by the fact that she was a terrific snob.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 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
Walking the full length of the track, Woolf found that it circled the entire oval, a few feet from the rail.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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