Found: Virginia Woolf

Imagine only just becoming conscious of a prized author after a lifetime of reading! An author already widely renowned and read, but by others, not you. That is what has happened. It is like soaring above the clouds to find her, to add to a beloved author list, with an open field of yet unread fiction. And it is important to this essay that the author was a woman. Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882 and lived until 1941. She was the benefactor of a learned upbringing, including being home-schooled, and intellectual co-nurturing in marriage. She became a reviewer for the London Times Literary Supplement, and then novelist and essayist, with more than twenty volumes published. She and her husband founded the Hogarth Press, which printed works of hers, as well as those of others,…