What was Virginia Woolf’s maiden name?
Virginia Woolf’s maiden name was Adeline Virginia Stephen.
She married Leonard Woolf in 1912.
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Who are the three subjects of Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives (1909)?
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How did the kingdom of Oz get its name?
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Were Homer’s works ever banned?
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Who created Roderick Usher?
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What author said of what work, “I have protracted my work til most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquility, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise”?
Dr. Samuel Johnson said it of his dictionary in “Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language” (1747-55).