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1882–1941
A pioneer of stream-of-consciousness; author of Mrs Dalloway and Orlando.
A reference author. Valice Press has no connection with Virginia Woolf, their publishers or their estate. Virginia Woolf appears here as part of the reading context around the shelf.
Biography
Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen, the seventh child of the critic Leslie Stephen. She was educated at home in the English classics and later studied classics and history at King's College London. After her father's death in 1904 she and her siblings moved to Bloomsbury, where she became a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group.
She married Leonard Woolf in 1912 and in 1917 the couple founded the Hogarth Press, which published much of her work. Through the 1920s she became one of the most influential modernist novelists, a pioneer of stream-of-consciousness narration, and a critic and essayist as well.
Works
Timeline
1904
After her father's death she moved with her siblings to Bloomsbury and began publishing professionally.
1912
Married Leonard Woolf.
1917
With Leonard, founded the Hogarth Press, which went on to publish her own books.
1922
On 14 December met Vita Sackville-West, beginning a friendship and love affair that shaped Orlando.
1928
Published Orlando, which she dedicated to Vita Sackville-West.
1941
Died by drowning in the River Ouse, near her Sussex home.
Why they are here
Woolf is a landmark of twentieth-century fiction, and Orlando is one of its early, playful treatments of gender and of love between women, written with her friend and lover Vita Sackville-West in mind. She belongs on any map of sapphic literary history without being a romance writer.
Her narrative technique reshaped the English novel, and A Room of One's Own remains a touchstone of feminist criticism.
Nearby on the shelf
These are Valice Press titles from the same part of the library. They are not by Virginia Woolf, and they are not a recommendation on Virginia Woolf’s behalf — only the same shelf.
An Enemies-to-Lovers Medical Romance
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A Small Town Sapphic Romance
Harper Hayes
A Small Town Romance
Harper Hayes
A Small Town Romance
Harper Hayes
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Sources
Everything on this page about Virginia Woolf is written from these sources, not from memory. Their dates and key claims were checked against the sources on 8 October 2026.The life dates are compared across Wikidata and the Library of Congress’s authority records.
