Quiz Answer 3.

Virginia Woolf (English, 1882 - 1941)
The daughter of renowned literary critic Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf grew up surrounded by such influential Victorian authors as Henry James, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and George Eliot, so it is not surprising that she, too, tried her hand at writing, to great success. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a writer and together they founded Hogart Press, which would later publish works by T.S. Eliot, Maxim Gorky, and E.M. Forster.

Woolf has been hailed as a leading innovator of modernist fiction due to her experimental work with stream of consciousness and fractured narrative in her novels, most notably Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Her famous essay "a room of one's own" remains one of the most important texts of contemporary feminism.

From childhood, Woolf suffered from periods of severe depression, and in 1941 she drowned herself after writing a note to her husband-"I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times... I can't fight it any longer."

Quiz Question 3.

Quiz Question 3.

This feminist essayist was a pioneer of the modern novel.

Who was she?

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Quiz Answer 2.

Answer 2.

Emily Bront

One of a trio of sisters famous for their literary talents, Emily Brontë authored just one novel during her short life, but it has since become a classic of English literature. The fifth of six children, she grew up on the lonely moors of Yorkshire, where her father was the rector. After the death of their mother in 1821, the children entertained themselves by imagining fantasy worlds and writing down their creations in notebooks.

Educated mostly at home, Emily worked as a governess and flirted with the idea of opening a school, going as far as Brussels to study languages and school management, but she eventually dropped her plans. Her younger sister Anne discovered a book of verse Emily had written and convinced her sisters to publish a book of poetry. This led each sister to her own novelistic pursuits, resulting in Emily's haunting tale of love and revenge, Wuthering Heights, published in 1847. Only thirty years old, Emily died of tuberculosis the next year.

Quiz Question 2. - Happy Easter!

Happy Easter Everyone! - Hope you enjoy the long weekend.

We're bringing the quiz to you early this week as tomorrow is Good Friday. We'll be back in the office on Tuesday, and the answer to this rather taxing question will be posted Friday 13th.

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Question 2.

Unlike her more prolific sisters, this writer published only one novel.
Who was she?