Gabrielle Roy vs. Virginia Woolf
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Gabrielle Roy
1909 – 1983
Literature
Canada
Gabrielle Roy was a Canadian author from St. Boniface, Manitoba. She became one of the major voices in French-language literature in Canada, known for her portrayals of working-class life in Manitoba and Quebec and for her clear, straightforward prose.
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"Florentine... Florentine Lacasse... half song, half squalor, half springtime, half misery,the young man murmured."
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Virginia Woolf
1882 – 1941
Literature
United Kingdom
Bloomsbury Group
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
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Connections
Virginia Woolf was influenced by Gabrielle Roy
Shared era: 1909 – 1941
Both wrote about: