Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941), born Adeline Virginia Stephen, was a British writer who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century.
Birth Name:
Adeline Virginia Stephen
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Adeline Virginia Alexandra Stephen
Alternative Names:
Virginia Stephen
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Adeline Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Adeline Woolf
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Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf
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Virginia Stephen Woolf
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Adeline Virginia Alexandra Woolf
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.