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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 100th most popular writer (up from 102nd in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 10th 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 100 out of 7,302. Before her are Heinrich Heine, Louisa May Alcott, Erich Maria Remarque, Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, and Paulo Coelho. After her are Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas fils, Miyamoto Musashi, Arthur Rimbaud, François Rabelais, and Jack London.

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

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Virginia Woolf ranks 90 out of 8,785. Before her are Anne, Princess Royal (1950), Tom Jones (1940), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), Richard Burton (1925), Olav V of Norway (1903), and Edward the Martyr (962). After her are Francis Drake (1540), Charles Babbage (1791), Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885), Thomas More (1478), Joseph Lister (1827), and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Virginia Woolf ranks 10. Before her are Charles Dickens (1812), Thomas Hardy (1840), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), and Daniel Defoe (1660). After her are Jane Austen (1775), Lewis Carroll (1832), Emily Brontë (1818), Mary Shelley (1797), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850).

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