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1882 – 1941 · Hyde Park Gate
Virginia Woolf
She stopped telling tidy stories and followed the mind instead.
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Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882 into a large, book-filled family. Her father was Leslie Stephen, a famous writer and editor. Because of his work, ideas and famous guests filled the house. She read hungrily in his library because girls of her class were not sent to school the way her brothers were. This unequal treatment shaped her lifelong anger about how women were kept from learning and money.
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- Mrs Dalloway 1925
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