吴尔芙(1882～1941年)

Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia，原名Adeline Virginia Stephen。

英国女小说家和评论家。莱斯利.史蒂芬的女儿。她和她的姐妹成为早期布伦斯伯里团体的核心。1912年与李欧纳德.吴尔芙结婚，1917年夫妇创建霍迦斯出版社。她的优秀小说《黛洛维夫人》（1925）和《灯塔行》（1927），试图表达个人经历中的现在的时间和过去的时间以及角色所意识到的历史性时间这些不同的时间概念。《欧兰朵》（1928）是一部历史幻想作品，描写一位主角从伊莉莎白到现代的经历体验，而在《海浪》（1931）一书中--《海浪》可能是吴尔芙最富实验性的作品--她利用内心独白与不断重现的意象，追溯六个角色的内在生活。她的优秀评论都收入《普通读者》（1925，1932）。她的长篇论文《自己的房间》（1929）中，描述了女作家在一个男人的世界中所遇到的困难。她的其他小说包括《雅各的房间》（1922）、《年月》（1937）和《幕与幕之间》（1941）。吴尔芙因精神病复发投河自尽。

English version：

1882～1941年

Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia

British novelist and critic. Daughter of Leslie Stephen, she and her sister became the early nucleus of the Bloomsbury group. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912; in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press. Her best novels include Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), which use vividly metaphoric presentation of an individual consciousness meditating on apparently insignificant events to present a whole life and a whole historical period. Orlando (1928) is a historical fantasy about the experiences of a single character from the Elizabethan era to the present day, and The Waves (1931), perhaps her most radically experimental work, uses interior monologue and recurring images to trace the inner lives of six characters. Such works confirmed her place among the major figures of literary modernism. Her best critical studies are collected in The Common Reader (1925, 1932). Her long essay A Room of One's Own (1929) addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. Her other novels include Jacob's Room (1922), The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). Her health and mental stability were delicate throughout her life; in a recurrence of mental illness, she drowned herself. Her diaries and correspondence have been published in several editions.