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."
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