While her brothers Thoby and Adrian were sent to Cambridge, Virginia was educated by private tutors and copiously read from her father’s vast library of literary classics. The Stephen family lived at Hyde Park Gate in Kensington, a respectable English middle class neighborhood. Virginia Adeline Stephen was the third child of Leslie Stephen, a Victorian man of letters, and Julia Duckworth. “Without Virginia Woolf at the center of it, it would have remained formless or marginal…With the death of Virginia Woolf, a whole pattern of culture is broken.” Eliot describes in his obituary for Virginia. Woolf represents a historical moment when art was integrated into society, as T.S. Her letters and memoirs reveal glimpses of Woolf at the center of English literary culture during the Bloomsbury era. Woolf was a prolific writer, whose modernist style changed with each new novel. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist, essayist, biographer, and feminist.
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