It was on this date, January 25, 1882, that British novelist Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London. She was the daughter of Julia Jackson Duckworth, a member of the Duckworth publishing family, and Sir Leslie Stephen, the literary critic and founder of the Dictionary of National Biography. Virginia gave little thought to religion, generally: “I like the Roman Catholic religion,” she wrote. “I say it is an attempt at art.” …

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Originally published January 2003 by Ronald Bruce Meyer.