Virginia Woolf

Born in London in 1882, Virginia Woolf became one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. She was closely connected with the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of writers, artists, and thinkers, and her fiction helped redefine what a novel could do.

Her best-known books include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves. Alongside her novels, she wrote major essays such as A Room of One's Own, where she explored the social and material barriers facing women writers with clarity, wit, and urgency.

Woolf also worked as a publisher with her husband, Leonard Woolf, through the Hogarth Press. She died in 1941, but her writing remains strikingly alive—restless, searching, and deeply attentive to the inner life.