Woolf

American

[woolf] / wʊlf /

noun

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

Woolf British

/ wʊlf /

noun

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

There has been an outcry from local authors and Virginia Woolf fans across the world as the iconic sea view from Talland House, St Ives, is set to be blocked by a five-storey development.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

Woolf spent annual summer holidays at Talland House with her family when she was a child between 1882 and 1894.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

The psychological complexity she achieved paved the way for such future writers as Virginia Woolf, George Eliot and James Joyce.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

As they approached Cassidy, Woolf suddenly blurted out, “Charley, look out because the Biscuit kicks like hell and I don’t want you or your horse to get hurt.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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