MARCH 28 : VIRGINIA WOOLF
Today is the death anniversary of Virginia Woolf, British novelist who lived between (25th January 1882 and 28th March 1941). She died by commiting suicide. (Filled her coat with stones and drowned herself in the river Ouse, near her house). Her suicide note expressed apprehension of another bout of going mad, which she was unable to bear. She expressed her happiness with her husband, but she did not want to trouble him. Regarded as a remarkable feminine writer in the 20th Century.

10 things about her and her work
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* from a family of literary background.
* Influence of Victorian literary environment.
* 1904: Had her first bout of madness. She was
institutionalised.
* Seems to have been sexually abused by her half
brother.
* Wrote for urban middle class.
* Feminist.
* supported lesbianism.
* Characters created by her are trivialising
individuals.
* Criticised to be a snob.
* Concentrated more on thought processes and stream
of consciousness.

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Important works:

Jacob's Room , Mrs. Dalloway , To the Lighthouse , The Waves