I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me. by Virginia Woolf

• Virginia Woolf | British

  
  
  Profession: Novelist and Essayist
  Born: January 25, 1882
  Died: March 28, 1941
  Virginia Woolf was a pioneering modernist writer, celebrated for works like Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, and her reflections on feminism and the human psyche.
  Virginia Woolf was a modernist writer whose works, like Mrs. Dalloway, explore the complexity of human consciousness.
  
  

  I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.

  Virginia Woolf

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