Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is one of the world’s great writers. Born Virginia Stephen, she became a professional writer in 1900, and began writing for the TLS a few years later. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf; they founded the Hogarth Press five years later. Her novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), but she is also celebrated as the author of short stories and non-fiction, including the feminist essays A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938).
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, short story writer, publisher, critic and member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as being regarded as both a hugely significant modernist and feminist figure. Her most famous works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own.