Portrait of Virginia Woolf

Modernism

Virginia Woolf

1882 – 1941

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

  • United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · United Kingdom
  • British
  • Modernism
  • Bloomsbury Group
  • Stream of Consciousness
  • bloomsbury-group
  • Literary Theory
UGC NET importance

About

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Portrait by George Charles Beresford / Adam Cuerden (Public domain) via Wikimedia Commons.

Life on the Timeline

1882 – 1941
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Major Works

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