Novelist & Essayist · British · b. January 25, 1882 · d. March 28, 1941
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child in a blended family of eight. She began writing professionally in 1900. During the inter-war period, Woolf was an important part of London's literary and artistic society. In 1915 she had published her first novel, *The Voyage Out*, through her half-brother's publishing house, Gerald Duckworth and Company. Her best-known works include the novels *Mrs Dalloway* (1925), *To the Lighthouse* (1927), and *Orlando* (1928), and the book-length essay *A Room of One's Own* (1929), with its dictum, 'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.'
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