Virginia Woolf

Women Pioneers

Virginia Woolf

Fun facts

Virgina Woolf (1882-1941) was a literary figure, considered one of the brightest writers of the 20th-century. She was an important activist and she has contributed to feminism.

Feminism

Biography

Works

Some books by Virginia Woolf

• Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
• To the Lighthouse (1927)
• A room of One's Own (1929)
• Between the Acts (1939)

ACTIVISM and FEMINISM

• 1904: she moved to Bloomsbury--> detachment from the convintions of the time.
• She joined the suffragette movement.
• She wrote about gender equality and women's intellectual status.
• 1938: she wrote about war anf fascism from a feminist prespective.
• She was progressive in her feminism, and even made the connection between a patriarchal society and militarism.
• She believed deeply in the power of the individual.
• She saw sexuality and gender as fluid.

BIOGRAPHY

• Born in 1882 (London).
• Wealthy family.
• She loved the ocean.
• Death of her mother.--> and of her happy life
• Selling of her sea house.
• Depression - mental illness.
• 1915: The Voyage Out --> she attempted suicide.
• She worked as a voluntary in the fight for women's vote.
• 1917: she founded a publishing company
• 1941: death by water

Fun & interesting facts

• Her name wasn't Virginia
• She physically made her books

• She had a marmoset monkey
• She attemped suicide
• She wrote like an artist
• She wrote the biography of a dog
• She has been a night -school teacher