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Virginia Woolf

1882 to 1941 8 documented presences 8 places

Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Virginia Woolf across 8 places, from 1882 to 1924. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 to 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Virginia Woolf was documented, and when

25 January 1882exact date
South Kensington, Londonattested “Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on 25 January 1882, in South Kensington, London, to Julia (née Jackson) and Sir Leslie Stephen.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
November 1904month
Haworthattested “Invited to submit a 1,500-word article, Virginia sent Lyttelton a review of William Dean Howells' The Son of Royal Langbirth and an essay about her visit to Haworth that year, Haworth, November 1904.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
January 1905month
Cambridge Universityattested “She spent time recovering at the house of Stella's friend Violet Dickinson, and at her aunt Caroline Stephen's house in Cambridge, and by January 1905, Savage considered her cured.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1910year
Burley Houseattested “On Savage's recommendation, Virginia spent three short periods in 1910, 1912, and 1913 at Burley House at 15 Cambridge Park, Twickenham, described as "a private nursing home for women with nervous disorder" run by Miss Jean Thomas.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
November 1911month
Brunswick Squareattested “In November 1911 Virginia and Adrian moved to a larger house in Brunswick Square, and invited John Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant and Leonard Woolf to become lodgers there.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
5 May 1919exact date
Londonattested “Asham provided Virginia with much-needed relief from the London's fast-paced life and was where she found happiness that she expressed in her diary on 5 May 1919: "Oh, but how happy we've been at Asheham!” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1924 to 1939period
Rodmellattested “Busts of Virginia Woolf have been erected at her home in Rodmell, Sussex, and at Tavistock Square, London, where she lived between 1924 and 1939.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1924 to 1939period
Tavistock Squareattested “Busts of Virginia Woolf have been erected at her home in Rodmell, Sussex, and at Tavistock Square, London, where she lived between 1924 and 1939.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf

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Places Virginia Woolf is documented in

Cambridge University1 presence · 1905London1 presence · 1919
Brunswick Square1 presence · 1911
Burley House1 presence · 1910
Haworth1 presence · 1904
Rodmell1 presence · 1924
South Kensington, London1 presence · 1882
Tavistock Square1 presence · 1924

Other places tied to Virginia Woolf in the record

In each of these, a source puts Virginia Woolf and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Virginia Woolf was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1882year
St Ives, Cornwallmentioned “In the spring of 1882, Leslie rented a large white house in St Ives, Cornwall.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1899 to 1904period
Trinity College, Cambridgementioned “Leonard Woolf was one of Thoby Stephen's friends at Trinity College, Cambridge, and had encountered the Stephen sisters in Thoby's rooms while visiting for May Week between 1899 and 1904.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1899 to 1904period
Thobymentioned “Leonard Woolf was one of Thoby Stephen's friends at Trinity College, Cambridge, and had encountered the Stephen sisters in Thoby's rooms while visiting for May Week between 1899 and 1904.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1904 to 1911period
Ceylonmentioned “In 1904 Leonard left Britain for a civil service position in Ceylon, but returned for a year's leave in 1911 after letters from Lytton Strachey, describing Virginia's beauty, enticed him back.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1906year
Greecementioned “In the autumn of 1906, the siblings travelled to Greece and Turkey with Violet Dickinson.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1910year
Lewesmentioned “In the winter of 1910 she and Adrian stayed at Lewes and started exploring Sussex's surrounding area.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
February 1910month
Londonmentioned “By the end of February 1910, she was becoming increasingly restless, and Savage suggested being away from London.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
11 January 1912exact date
Virginiamentioned “Leonard proposed to Virginia on 11 January 1912.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
September 1913month
Burley Housementioned “On emerging from Burley House in September 1913, she sought further opinions from two other physicians on the 13th: Maurice Wright, and Henry Head, who had been Henry James's physician.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1924 to 1940period
Bloomsburymentioned “Between 1924 and 1940 the Woolfs returned to Bloomsbury, taking out a ten-year lease at 52 Tavistock Square, from where they ran the Hogarth Press from the basement, where Virginia also had her writing room.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1927year
Cambridge Universitymentioned “In 1927, her next novel, To the Lighthouse, was published, and the following year she lectured on Women & Fiction at Cambridge University and published Orlando in October.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1929year
Girton College, Cambridgementioned “She addressed undergraduate women at the ODTAA Society at Girton College, Cambridge, and the Arts Society at Newnham College, with two papers that eventually became A Room of One's Own (1929).” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
1929year
Newnham Collegementioned “She addressed undergraduate women at the ODTAA Society at Girton College, Cambridge, and the Arts Society at Newnham College, with two papers that eventually became A Room of One's Own (1929).” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf
September 1940month
Londonmentioned “The Woolfs' final residence in London was at 37 Mecklenburgh Square (1939–1940), destroyed during the Blitz in September 1940; a month later their previous home on Tavistock Square was also destroyed.” source: Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf

Documented at the same place, the same year

George MalloryWar Office · 1919Muhammad IqbalCambridge University · 1905Niels BohrEngland · 1911Rudolf Christoph EuckenEngland · 1911Francis Bacon (artist)England · 1911Francis GaltonEngland · 1911Tōgō HeihachirōEngland · 1911Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-SchwerinEngland · 1911Igor StravinskyLondon · 1924Emma GoldmanLondon · 1924Edward Victor AppletonLondon · 1924A. S. NeillLondon · 1924

Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting. Quo Fuit will never say they met without a source that says so.

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Sources

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