Virginia Woolf biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Virginia Woolf

Author Name:

Virginia Woolf

Born As:

Adeline Virginia Stephen

Other Names:

Virginia Woolf

Born:

25 Jan 1882

Died:

28 Mar 1941




author picture
Novelist, feminist essayist, critic and a central figure of the Bloomsbury group                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

The Voyage Out - 1915
Night and Day - 1919
Jacob's Room - 1922
Mrs Dalloway - 1925
To the Lighthouse - 1927
Orlando - 1928
The Waves - 1931
The Years - 1937
Between the Acts - 1941

Short story collections:

Monday or Tuesday - 1921
The New Dress - 1924
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories - 1944
Mrs. Dalloway's Party - 1973
The Complete Shorter Fiction - 1985

Biographies:

Virginia Woolf published three books which she gave the subtitle "A Biography":

Orlando: A Biography - 1928
Flush: A Biography - 1933
Roger Fry: A Biography - 1940

Non-fiction books:


Modern Fiction - 1919
The Common Reader - 1925
A Room of One's Own - 1929
On Being Ill - 1930
The London Scene - 1931
The Common Reader: Second Series - 1932
Three Guineas - 1938
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays - 1942
The Moment and Other Essays - 1947
The Captain's Death Bed And Other Essays - 1950
Granite and Rainbow - 1958
Books and Portraits - 1978
Women And Writing - 1979
Collected Essays - four volumes

Drama:

Freshwater: A Comedy - performed in 1923, revised in 1935, and published in 1976

Autobiographical writings and diaries:

A Writer’s Diary - 1953 - Extracts from the complete diary
Moments of Being - 1976
A Moment's Liberty: the shorter diary - 1990
The Diary of Virginia Woolf - five volumes - Diary of Virginia Woolf from 1915 to 1941
Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 - 1990
Travels With Virginia Woolf - 1993 - Greek travel diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Jan Morris
The Platform of Time: Memoirs of Family and Friends, Expanded Edition, edited by S. P. Rosenbaum -  2008

Letters:

Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters - 1993
The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888-1941 - six volumes, 1975-1980
Paper Darts: The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf - 1991.
                          
Mother Julia Prinsep Stephen
Father Sir Leslie Stephen
Woolf married writer Leonard Woolf in 1912.                          
Selected Works:

Fiction:

Jacob's Room
Night and Day
The Voyage Out


Short Stories:

The Mark On The Wall
A Haunted House
A Society
Monday Or Tuesday
An Unwritten Novel
The String Quartet
Blue & Green
Kew Gardens


Essays:

George Eliot