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When Virginia Woolf wrote her now famous essay A Room of One’s Own, she began with a story. She described to her readers how she researched her topic while staying at an Oxbridge college. She ate two meals during her visit, and her account of the delicious fare she was served at a male college (sole in cream sauce, partridge, …
1. ‘Virginia’ was Woolf’s middle name: her full name was Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen). 2. Woolf was born in 1882, the same year as James Joyce; she died in 1941, the same year as James Joyce. They never met. 3. Woolf’s father, Leslie Stephen, was the son-in-law (through his first marriage) of the famous Victorian novelist William Makepeace …