Adeline Virginia Woolf was an influential English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the most prominent modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. She was born in 1882, the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and grew up in a household filled with intellectuals and artists. After the deaths of her mother and step-sister, Woolf suffered from mental health issues that plagued her throughout her life. However, she persevered and became a significant figure in London literary society, associated with the Bloomsbury Group.\n \nWoolf's most famous works include the novels "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925), "To the Lighthouse" (1927), and "Orlando" (1928), as well as the book-length essay "A Room of One's Own" (1929). In "A Room of One's Own," she coined the famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf's writing is known for its stream-of-consciousness style, which was groundbreaking at the time and has since influenced countless writers.
In 1912, Woolf married Leonard Woolf, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917. The press published works by notable authors such as T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, and Katherine Mansfield, as well as the earliest translations of Freud. Woolf's writing was not limited to fiction, as she also wrote essays and two books of feminist polemic, "A Room of One's Own" (1929) and "Three Guineas" (1938).
Woolf's fiction is known for its exploration of women's experiences and the relationship between individual lives and the forces of society and history. Some of her major novels include "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925), "Orlando" (1928), "The Waves" (1931), and "Between the Acts" (1941). Woolf's writing has left a lasting impact on literature and continues to be celebrated and studied today.
Standalone Novels
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The Voyage Out
1915
2
Night and Day
1919
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Jacob's Room
1922
4
Mrs. Dalloway
1925
5
To the Lighthouse
1927
6
Orlando
1928
7
The Waves
1931
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The Years
1937
9
Between the Acts
1941
10
Melymbrosia
1981
Short Stories/Novellas
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The Mark on the Wall
1917
2
Kew Gardens
1919
3
A Society
1921
4
The Lady in the Looking Glass
1960
5
The Widow and the Parrot
1985
6
Nurse Lugton's Curtain
1991
Plays
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1
Freshwater
1935
Short Story Collections
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Year
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1
The Mark On The Wall & Other Short Fiction
1917
2
Two Stories
1917
3
Monday or Tuesday
1921
4
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
1944
5
Mrs. Dalloway's Party
1973
6
The Complete Shorter Fiction
1993
7
Collected Short Stories
2019
Virginia Woolf Diaries and Journals
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A Writer's Diary
1953
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One
1977
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two
1978
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three
1980
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four
1982
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Five
1984
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A Moment's Liberty
1990
8
Passionate Apprentice
1990
9
Travels With Virginia Woolf
1993
Essays
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The Common Reader
1925
2
On Not Knowing Greek
1925
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A Room of One's Own
1928
4
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
1929
5
On Being Ill
1930
6
The London Scene
1931
7
The Common Reader: Second Series
1932
8
Three Guineas
1938
9
Reviewing
1939
10
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
1941
11
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
1942
12
Moment And Other Essays
1948
13
Granite and Rainbow
1958
14
Contemporary Writers
1965
15
Walter Sickert
1978
16
Books & Portraits
1978
17
Women and Writing
1979
18
A Letter to a Young Poet
2021
Collected Essays
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The Essays, Vol. 1
1967
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The Essays, Vol. 2
1967
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The Essays, Vol. 3
1967
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The Essays, Vol. 4
1967
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The Essays, Vol. 5
1986
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The Essays, Vol. 6
2011
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Street Haunting
2022
The Letters of Virginia Woolf Books
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1
1975
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2
1976
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3
1977
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4
1978
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5
1979
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 6
1980
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Paper Darts
1991
Non-Fiction Books
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Flush
1933
2
Roger Fry: A Biography
1940
3
Moments of Being
1976
4
Selected Letters
1990
5
The Platform of Time
2007
Virginia Woolf Anthologies
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Identity And Self Respect
1952
2
50 Great Short Stories
1952
3
Women and Fiction
1975
4
A World of Fiction
1983
5
Witches' Brew
1984
6
Magical Realist Fiction
1984
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Famous and Curious Animal Stories
1989
8
That Kind of Woman: Stories from the Left Bank and Beyond
1991
9
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question
1992
10
40 Model Essays
2005
11
Stories to Get You Through the Night
2010
12
Fathers: A Literary Anthology
2011
13
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell
2018
14
Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
15
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die