Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning…Virginia Woolf
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
— VIRGINIA WOOLF
Novelist and essayist · 1882 – 1941
Virginia Woolf was an English writer and a central figure of literary modernism, famous for stream-of-consciousness novels such as Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). Her essay A Room of One's Own (1929) became a foundational feminist text on women and writing. With her husband Leonard she founded the Hogarth Press, which published her own work and that of T. S. Eliot and others.
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