Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer best-known for her unconventional approaches to form as well as her trailblazing essays on artistic and literary subjects. After a series of deaths in her family, she moved to Bloomsbury, the bohemian London neighborhood that subsequently became synonymous with her literary circle. Woolf founded a successful publishing company with her husband and was well known for her literary reviews; however, it was her novels, such as Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) that solidified her as a luminary in the world of modernist literature.
