November 29, 2010 Introduction “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much do they?” Virginia Woolf was born in London, on January 25, 1882. Her full birth name is Adeline Virginia Stephen. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a notable historian, author, critic, and mountaineer. She was educated by her father and mother. She had a large immediate family. As a young girl, she was sexually abused by her two older step brothers. After the loss…
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