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Virginia Woolf

1882 - 1941

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Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device. Virginia Woolf was born in South Kensington, London, into an affluent and intellectual family as the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen. She grew up in a blended household of eight children, including her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Virginia Woolf is the 102nd most popular writer, the 63rd most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 9th most popular British Writer.

Virginia Woolf is most famous for her novels Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves.

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Among writers, Virginia Woolf ranks 102 out of 7,302. Before her are Matsuo Bashō, George Sand, Marquis de Sade, Jonathan Swift, Ismail I, and James Joyce. After her are Paulo Coelho, Abu Nuwas, Du Fu, André Gide, Stephen King, and Maurice Maeterlinck.

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Among people born in 1882, Virginia Woolf ranks 4. Before her are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Igor Stravinsky, and James Joyce. After her are Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Wilhelm Keitel, Georges Braque, Max Born, Sigrid Undset, Georgi Dimitrov, Emmy Noether, and Abdullah I of Jordan. Among people deceased in 1941, Virginia Woolf ranks 5. Before her are Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Rabindranath Tagore, Henri Bergson, and James Joyce. After her are Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Maurice Leblanc, Maximilian Kolbe, Emanuel Lasker, Walther Nernst, and Arthur Evans.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Virginia Woolf ranks 63 out of 8,785. Before her are Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900), Emily Brontë (1818), Herbert Spencer (1820), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), William Wallace (1270), and Edward Jenner (1749). After her are Charles, Prince of Wales (1948), Harold Harefoot (1016), Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), John Stuart Mill (1806), and Alex Ferguson (1941).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Virginia Woolf ranks 9. Before her are Agatha Christie (1890), Charles Dickens (1812), Jane Austen (1775), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Daniel Defoe (1660), and Emily Brontë (1818). After her are Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), Mary Shelley (1797), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), and Terry Pratchett (1948).

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