Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, on January 25, 1882, in London, England.
One of the most notable and prolific Modernist writers, Virginia Woolf wrote nine novels, one play, over five volumes of essays, portraits, memoirs, and reviews, more than fourteen volumes of diaries and letters, and forty-six short stories. In her novels, Woolf evolved a way of writing that demands engagement from a reader with a novel’s structure as well as with its content. From the moment she began writing, Woolf had a literary career plan: to reshape the novel as it was then known. Each of her novels exists as a testament to Virginia Woolf’s self-conscious evolution as an experimental writer.
