Woolf

Woolf  (wlf), (Adeline) Virginia (Stephen) 1882-1941.

British writer whose works include fiction written in an experimental stream-of-consciousness style, such as Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), and collections of essays, such as A Room of One's Own (1929).

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Woolf [wʊlf]

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1. (Biographies / Woolf, Leonard Sidney (1880-1969) M, English, WRITING: publisher, POLITICS: political writer) Leonard Sidney. 1880-1969, English publisher and political writer

2. (Biographies / Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) F, English, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: critic) 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 - English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941) Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, Virginia Woolf Bloomsbury Group - an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles