Woolf

American  

[woolf] / wʊlf /

noun

1. Virginia Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, 1882–1941, English novelist, essayist, and critic.

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Woolf British  

/ wʊlf /

noun

1. Leonard Sidney. 1880–1969, English publisher and political writer

2. 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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Woolf

The 8,400-square-foot home was designed in 1949 by John “Jack” Elgin Woolf, a famed midcentury-era architect of the Hollywood stars.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

“Yes, we have rebounded from the pandemic, but other countries rebounded earlier and have since achieved greater gains in life expectancy,” Woolf said.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 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 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

So Woolf made another concession to his disease.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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