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Birth of Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Stephen is born. She is the third of four children born to Julia Prinsep Stephen and her husband Leslie. She also has four half-siblings from her parents' previous marriages. Virginia's parents are members on the London literary and intellectual scene and she grows up in a home full of books. -
Contributor to Times Literary Supplement
At the age of 23, Virginia begins her professional writing career as a contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. She also takes on several jobs similar to that available to women at the time, such as teaching and reading to elderly ladies. -
Birth of Dorothy Richardson
Born May 17, 1873. She was praised as one of ‘the new women writers’ and an innovator of ‘stream of consciousness,’ and she was considered Virginia Woolf’s equal. -
The Voyage Out is Published
-Woolf began work on The Voyage Out in 1910 and had finished an early draft by 1912. The novel had a long and difficult process and was not published until 1915. It was written during a period in which Woolf was especially psychologically vulnerable. She suffered from periods of depression and at one point attempted suicide. -The Voyage Out was also published one year after Dorothy Richardson's, Pilgrimage, was published. -
Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage is Published
This is her life-long experimental novel, published around 1915, about the same time that Joyce, Proust, and Woolf were conducting similar literary experiments. She was the first writer to work in what came to be called "stream of consciousness." Virginia Woolf credited her with the invention of something that Woolf herself would go on to make famous, "the psychological sentence of the feminine gender." -
Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party" is Published
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Katherine Mansfield Birth
Was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writer, Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34. -
Katherine Mansfield Death
Virginia Woolf's close friend, Katherine Mansfield, passes away -
Katherine Mansfield's Influence on Virginia Woolf
Mansfield produced most of her celebrated stories (one of which Woolf published), and Woolf forged her trademark style. Although we more readily associate Woolf with the stream of consciousness technique, it was actually Mansfield who tried it out first. -
Mrs. Dalloway is Published
Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.