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  2. Virginia Woolf - Wikipedia

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    Though at least one biography of Virginia Woolf appeared in her lifetime, the first authoritative study of her life was published in 1972 by her nephew Quentin Bell. Hermione Lee's 1996 biography Virginia Woolf [175] provides a thorough and authoritative examination of Woolf's life and work, which she discussed in an interview in 1997. [176]

  3. Creativity and mental health - Wikipedia

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    At the time she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, although two psychiatrists who examined Greenberg's self-description in the book in 1981 concluded that she did not have schizophrenia, but had extreme depression and somatization disorder. [64] The narrative constantly puts difference between the protagonist's mental illness and her artistic ...

  4. On Being Ill - Wikipedia

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    On Being Ill is an essay by Virginia Woolf, which seeks to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. Woolf writes about the isolation, loneliness, and vulnerability that disease may bring and how it can make even the maturest of adults feel like children again. [1]

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  6. List of people with an anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    Numerous notable people have had some form of anxiety disorder.This is a list of people accompanied by verifiable source associating them with one or more anxiety-based mental health disorders based on their own public statements; this discussion is sometimes tied to the larger topic of creativity and mental illness.

  7. The Voyage Out - Wikipedia

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    The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life. St. John Hirst is a fictional portrayal of Lytton Strachey, and Helen Ambrose is, to some extent, inspired by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. [7]

  8. The Waves - Wikipedia

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    Rhoda is riddled with self-doubt, anxiety and depression, always rejecting and indicting human compromise, always seeking out solitude. She echoes Shelley's poem "The Question". Rhoda resembles Virginia Woolf in some respects. Percival, partly based on Woolf's brother, Thoby Stephen, is the esteemed hero of the other six. He dies midway through ...

  9. Flush: A Biography - Wikipedia

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    Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in 1933. Written after the completion of her emotionally draining The Waves , the work returned Woolf to the imaginative consideration of English history that she had begun in ...