Virginia Woolf

1882 – 1941 · died at about 59^[1][2]

Literature

Fun Facts About Virginia Woolf

• Virginia Woolf took part in the Dreadnought hoax, in which her Bloomsbury friends posed as a royal Abyssinian entourage. She played "Prince Mendax".^[1]
• Woolf and her husband started the Hogarth Press with a hand-printing press on their dining-room table. It went on to publish the first translation of the complete works of Sigmund Freud.^[1][3][4]
• From age 10, Woolf ran an illustrated family newspaper, the Hyde Park Gate News, modeled on the popular magazine Tit-Bits.^[1]
• Childhood summers at a house in St Ives with a view of the Godrevy Lighthouse later influenced Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse.^[1]
• Woolf's father, Leslie Stephen, had first been married to Minny Thackeray, a daughter of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.^[1]
• Woolf wrote only one play, Freshwater, a comedy about her great-aunt, the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. It was performed only once in her lifetime, at her sister's studio.^[1]
• Virginia Woolf was alive at the same time as Richard Wagner — their lives overlapped for 1 year (1882–1883).^[1][2][5][6]
• Virginia Woolf shares a birthday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy: both were born on January 25.^[1][2][7][8]

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.^[1]

Contemporaries

Nikola Tesla

59 yr overlap

Rabindranath Tagore

59 yr overlap

Henry Ford

59 yr overlap

Edvard Munch

59 yr overlap

H.G. Wells

59 yr overlap

Mahatma Gandhi

59 yr overlap

Max Planck

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Orville Wright

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Winston Churchill

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Carl Jung

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Albert Einstein

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Pablo Picasso

59 yr overlap

Their World

Questions About Virginia Woolf

When was Virginia Woolf born?

Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941.

How old was Virginia Woolf at death?

Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941, at age 59.

What was Virginia Woolf known for?

Virginia Woolf was known for: Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer. Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

Who was alive at the same time as Virginia Woolf?

Virginia Woolf's closest contemporary was Nikola Tesla. Their lives overlapped for 59 years.