Thursday, March 28, 2024

Virginia Woolf commits suicide in 1941


 

Virginia Woolf, who committed suicide on 28 March 1941, aged 59, was an English writer. She was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.

Woolf was one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Her novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre.

While she is best known for her novels, especially Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the lighthouse (1927), Woolf also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing, and the politics of power. A fine stylist, she experimented with several forms of biographical writing, composed painterly short fictions, and sent to her friends and family a lifetime of brilliant letters.


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