Over 50 years after her death, the writings of Virginia Woolf are a source of continuing power and ever-increasing influence. Recognized in her own time and country as one of the most significant of the Modernists, Woolf has achieved a stature, in the late twentieth century, of international prominence. Admired first in the era of New Criticism as one of the superb formalist writers of fiction, ...

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) - in full Adeline Virginia Woolf, original surname Stephen