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     Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882, a descendant of one of Victorian England’s most prestigious literary families. Woolf grew up among the most important and influential British intellectuals of her time, and was allowed considerable ____(1)____ to fully indulge herself in literature in her father’s library. Her personal connections and abundant talent soon opened doors for her. Woolf wrote that she found herself in “a position ____(2)____ it was easier on the whole to be eminent than obscure.” Almost from the beginning, her life was a(n) ____(3)____ of extraordinary success and mental instability. Woolf suffered from severe ____(4)____ of mental illness throughout her life and took her own life by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.

     As a young woman, Woolf wrote for the prestigious Times Literary Supplement, and as an adult, she quickly found herself ____(5)____ England’s most important literary community. Known as the “Bloomsbury Group” after the section of London in which its members lived, this group of writers, artists, and philosophers emphasized nonconformity, aesthetic pleasure and intellectual freedom, and it included such ____(6)____ as the painter Lytton Strachey, the novelist E. M. Forster, the composer Benjamin Britten, and the economist John Maynard Keynes. Working among such an inspirational group of peers and possessing an incredible talent in her own ____(7)____, Woolf published her most famous novels by the mid-1920s, including

    The Voyage Out, Mr.. Dalloway, Orlando, and To The Lighthouse. With these works ____(8)____ the ____(8)____ of her profession. 

     Woolf’s writing bears the mark of her literary ____(9)____ as well as her struggle to find meaning in her own unsteady existence. Written in a poised, understated, and elegant style, her work ____(10)____ the structures of human life, from the nature of relationships to the experience of time. Yet, her writing also addresses issues relevant to her era and literary circle.