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A 5 page paper which presents an overview of Virginia Woolf and her
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even to our eyes, were their gestures, their glances of pure and unutterable delight in each other" (Anonymous Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), 2002; vwoolf.htm). She was educated at home and essentially
taught by her father. She was later to describe this period as truly unique stating, "Think how I was brought up! No school; mooning about alone among my fathers books;
never any chance to pick up all that goes on in schools-throwing balls; ragging; slang; vulgarities; scenes; jealousies!" (Anonymous Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), 2002; vwoolf.htm). "Virginia adored her father. They
both had brilliant minds and could spin a web of analytic discussion for hours" (Anonymous Sisters First: Vanessa Bell & Virginia Woolf, 2002; sisters.html). However, her life was not
completely rosy for she suffered a series of powerful emotional shocks that would influence her for the rest of her life: "her half-brother Gerald Duckworth sexually abused her and her
mother died when she was in her early teens. Stella Duckworth, her half sister, took her mothers place, but died a scant two years later, while "her father, suffered a
slow death from cancer" (Anonymous Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), 2002; vwoolf.htm). In 1906 her brother died and she suffered form a "prolonged mental breakdown" (Anonymous Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), 2002; vwoolf.htm). After
the serious tragedies is when her writing truly began, first with short pieces being published in journals, and then with more serious long novels. Contributions It was perhaps
due to two major works that she became known as a powerful writer. These two works were "To the Lighthouse," written in 1927, and "The Waves," written in 1931. With
these "Woolf established herself as one of the leading writers of modernism. On the publication of To the Lighthouse, Lytton Strachey wrote: It is really most unfortunate that she rules
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