|  Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels  Mrs Dalloway  (1925),  To the Lighthouse  (1927), and  Orlando  (1928), and the book-length essay  A Room of One's Own  (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." |