Literary Birthdays: Virginia Woolf (born on 25th of January 1882) – British novelist, essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."