The Reverend C. L. Dodgson had no life. He passed through t… - Virginia Woolf

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The Reverend C. L. Dodgson had no life. He passed through the world so lightly that he left no print. He melted so passively into Oxford that he is invisible.

Virginia Woolf

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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.

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Birth Name: Adeline Virginia Stephen

Alternative Names: Virginia Stephen • Adeline Virginia Woolf • Virginia Adeline Woolf • Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf • Virginia Stephen Woolf

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