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Virginia Woolf
Významná anglická spisovateľka a esejistka Virginia Woolfová, vlastným menom Adeline Virginia Stephenová, sa narodila 25. januára 1882 v Lodnýne. Vyrastala v početnej rodine, vzdelávala sa doma najmä čítaním kníh z bohatej otcovej knižnice. Nikdy nezažila detskú spoločnosť v škole, s jej slangom, vulgarizmami a žiarlivosťou, napísala neskôr.

Virginia Woolfová v detstve trávila letá v dome s výhľadom na záliv St. Ives Bay, kde sa na skalnatom ostrovčeku týči biely maják v tvare oktogónu. Inšpiroval ju k napísaniu románu K majáku (To the lighthouse), ktorý prvýkrát vyšiel v roku 1927. Je príkladom jej prozaického štýlu voľného záznamu myšlienok. Sústreďuje sa v ňom viac na myšlienky ako na dej a dialóg.
      V mladosti viackrát trpela psychickými ochoreniami, ktoré vyprovokovali úmrtia blízkych osôb. Depresie ju prenasledovali aj v dospelosti. Po smrti rodičov žila so súrodencami v londýnskom dome, ktorý sa stal miestom stretnutí intelektuálnej skupiny bohémov Bloomsbury group s moderným pohľadom na literárnu tvorbu. Jej romány Jakubova izba (Jacob's room, 1922), Pani Dallowayová (Mrs. Dalloway, 1925), The waves (Vlny, 1931) alebo The years (Roky, 1937) predstavujú experimentálny prístup k písaniu a k románovej forme. Rozbila v nich jednotu času a vo veľkej miere využívala metódu voľného zachytávania prúdu vedomia, čím minimalizovala úlohu autora ako rozprávača a komentátora. Patrila k hlavným predstaviteľom expresionizmu a subjektivizmu vo svetovej literatúre.
      Vďaka dedičstvu sa stala finančne nezávislou. Spoločne s manželom založila v roku 1917 vydavateľstvo Hogarth Press, v ktorom vychádzali jej knihy ale aj tvorba vtedajších autorov a napríklad aj knihy Sigmunda Freuda.
      Citlivá a emotívna Virginia Woolfová spáchala samovraždu utopením 28. marca 1941 v období hlbokej depresie, do ktorej ju okrem narušeného zdravia priviedli aj okolnosti druhej svetovej vojny. Zomrela vo veku 59 rokov.
      V roku 2000 preložil spisovateľ Pavel Vilikovský román Vlastná izba (A room of one's own, 1929) od Virginie Woolfovej a získal Cenu Jána Hollého za najlepší preklad prozaického diela v roku 2000.
      Virginiu Woolfovú stvárnila Nicole Kidmanová v oceňovanom filme Hodiny z roku 2002. Kúsok veternej pláže pri britskom Cornwalle, ktorý inšpiroval Virginiu Woolfovú pri písaní románu K majáku, predali v júli 2009 na aukcii dražobnej spoločnosti Colliers CRE za 80.000 libier (približne 93.000 eur).
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The Lady in the Looking-Glass was written in the year 1929 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The Legacy


The Legacy was written in the year 1944 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The Man Who Loved His Kind


The Man Who Loved His Kind was written in the year 1944 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The Mark on the Wall


The Mark on the Wall was written in the year 1917 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The New Dress


The New Dress was written in the year 1927 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The Searchlight


The Searchlight was written in the year 1944 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The Shooting Party


The Shooting Party was written in the year 1938 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The String Quartet


The String Quartet was written in the year 1921 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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A Room of One's Own


A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction", and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction. The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.
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A Society


A Society was written in the year 1921 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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In the Orchard


In the Orchard was written in the year 1923 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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Jacob's Room


The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob (except for those times when we do indeed get Jacob's perspective). Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed as a void in place of the central character, if indeed the novel can be said to have a 'protagonist' in conventional terms.
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Monday or Tuesday


Monday or Tuesday was written in the year 1921 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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Orlando


Orlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West, it is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels. The novel has been influential stylistically, and is considered important in literature generally, and particularly in the history of women's writing and gender studies. A film adaptation was released in 1992, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I.
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The Voyage Out


Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modeled after important figures in Woolf's life. St John Hirst is a fictional portrayal of Lytton Strachey and Helen Ambrose is to some extent inspired by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. And Rachel's journey from a cloistered life in a London suburb to freedom, challenging intellectual discourse and discovery very likely reflects Woolf's own journey from a repressive household to the intellectual stimulation of the Bloomsbury Group.
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The Waves


One of Woolf’s most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.
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