Pagine1882–1941 · London, England · also known as Woolf
Virginia Woolf changed what a novel could do, following the flow of characters’ thoughts rather than a conventional plot. A central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, she co-founded the Hogarth Press with her husband Leonard and wrote Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and The Waves (1931), as well as the essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), with its argument that a woman needs “money and a room of her own” to write.
Begin with Mrs Dalloway.
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Virginia Woolf changed what a novel could do, following the flow of characters’ thoughts rather than a conventional plot. A central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, she co-founded the Hogarth Press with her husband Leonard and wrote Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and The Waves (1931), as well as the essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), with its argument that a woman needs “money and a room of her own” to write.
Mrs Dalloway is usually considered Virginia Woolf’s best-known work, followed by To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One’s Own.
Most readers start with Mrs Dalloway.
Both refer to the same writer.
Many of Virginia Woolf’s works are in the public domain; we link to free editions below.