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Books by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English novelist, essayist, and critic, and one of the defining figures of literary modernism. Born into the intellectual milieu that would become the Bloomsbury Group, she co-founded the Hogarth Press with her husband Leonard Woolf. Her major works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves, along with the landmark essays A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas. She suffered from severe mental illness throughout her adult life and died by suicide at fifty-nine. The Waves, published in 1931, is generally regarded as the most formally ambitious of her novels.