In this episode, we explore the turbulent life and groundbreaking work of Adeline Virginia Woolf, a defining figure of 20th-century modernism who pioneered the stream of consciousness narrative style. Born into an affluent, intellectual household in 1882, Woolf’s youth was marred by the "seven unhappy years," a period devastated by the deaths of her mother, father, and siblings, as well as the trauma of childhood sexual abuse by her half-brothers,,.

Join us as we trace her journey from the restrictive Victorian era to the bohemian freedom of the Bloomsbury Group, where she held court with intellectuals like John Maynard Keynes and E. M. Forster,. We discuss her literary partnership with her husband, Leonard Woolf, with whom she founded the Hogarth Press on their dining room table, publishing works by T.S. Eliot and Sigmund Freud,.

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