An English novelist, essayist and central figure of literary Modernism, best known for developing stream of consciousness narration into a fully realized novelistic technique. Her novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931) render a character's continuous inward experience directly, moving between different characters' perceptions within a single scene rather than following a single external plot line. She was also a member of the Bloomsbury Group, an influential circle of English writers, artists and intellectuals centered in early twentieth-century London, and her extended essay A Room of One's Own (1929) is a foundational text of feminist literary criticism. She died in 1941, having suffered recurring severe depressive episodes across her adult life. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Why did Virginia Woolf start the Hogarth Press?
They founded it in 1917 as a hobby and creative outlet that also gave them freedom to publish what they chose.
Virginia and Leonard Woolf founded the Hogarth Press in March 1917 in their own home, Hogarth House in Richmond. It began partly as a hobby and partly as a creative enterprise, a welcome relief from the strain of wartime literary, journalistic and political work. Leonard Woolf later wrote that he was concerned about Virginia's mental health and thought a manual occupation, in the afternoons, would take her mind off her writing. Both were also excited by the artistic freedom of publishing their own work. They taught themselves printing, and the press went on to issue its first book, Two Stories, by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, along with early editions of Katherine Mansfield and T. S. Eliot.
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Mrs Dalloway already in-genre The Novel; Woolf herself carried no in-genre edge to it.
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Adeline Virginia Woolf ( "wolf"; née Stephen; 25 January 1882, 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors.
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Woolf is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century novelists.
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Woolf is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century novelists.
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A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1929.
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