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Virginia Woolf

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Virginia Woolf was born in London, as the daughter of Julia Jackson Duckworth, a member of the Duckworth publishing family, and Sir Leslie Stephen, a literary critic, a friend of Meredith, Henry James, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and George Eliot, and the founder of the Dictionary of National Biography. Leslie Stephen\'s first wife had been the daughter of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. His daughter Laura from the first marriage was institutionalized because of mental retardation. In a memoir dated 1907 she wrote of her parents, \"Beautiful often, even to our eyes, were their gestures, their glances of pure and unutterable delight in each other.\"

Woolf, who was educated at home by her father, grew up at the family home at Hyde Park Gate. In middle age she described this period in a letter to Vita Sackville-West: \"Think how I was brought up! No school; mooning about alone among my father\'s books; never any chance to pick up all that goes on in......


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