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As part of our successful series on authors, Lee Montague has compiled this talk on Virginia Woolf. Performed by Janet Suzman and Lee, it promises to be revealing and intriguing and entertaining!

Virginia Woolf (1882 ?1941) is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century British authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. With other writers and artists, she founded The Bloomsbury Group.

Her most notable works are Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One?s Own and The Waves.

In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917, the couple founded the Hogarth Press, which published much of her work. They rented a home in Sussex and moved there permanently in 1940. Woolf had romantic relationships with women, including Vita Sackville-West, Both women's literature became inspired by their relationship, which lasted until Woolf's death.

Throughout her life, Woolf was troubled by mental illness. She was institutionalised several times and attempted suicide at least twice. According to Dalsimer her illness was characterised by symptoms that today would be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, for which there was no effective intervention during her lifetime. In 1941, at age 59, Woolf died by drowning herself in the River Ouse at Lewes.

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