Women and Adversity:
Virginia Woolf
Novelist, Feminist, Lesbian
June is Pride Month
Virginia Woolf was a brilliant English novelist and essayist, known for her stream of consciousness technique. When she was five, she loved books and wrote letters. When she was 10, she began a family newspaper, which she wrote until 1895 when her mother died. She says the loss of her mother caused her first nervous breakdown, but she had other issues before then.
She experienced depression and menta ...
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Co-chair and Co-Chief Executive Officer
Panda Restaurant Group
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