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During the interwar period, woolf was a significant figure in london literary society and a central figure in the influential bloomsbury group of intellectuals. In late october, 1928, virginia woolf delivered a lecture on women and fiction at newnham and girton, the two womens college at cambridge, england. The narrator describes the library as if it brightens up the darkness of the london streets. Virginia woolf 1882 1941 adeline virginia woolf 25 january 1882 28 march 1941 was an english writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. A room of one s own, based on a lecture given at girton college cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. First published on 24 october 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures.
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