Early English Women Writers

Virginia Woolf, born in January of 1882 was a well renowned essay writer, publisher, critic, and novelist. Many would say that she was a strong feminist and novelist of her time. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was one of her most influential role models. He edited the Dictionary of National Biography and since then brought many people of literary excellence home for Virginia and her family to meet such as Henry James, Julia Margaret Cameron and James Russell Lowell, who also became Virginia’s honorary grandfather. In 1929 Virginia published her best non-fiction work of all time, A Room of One’s Own. Her work was heavily influenced by a series of lectures that she had presented to many colleges and universities throughout 1928.