05 May - The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf was first published in 1927

 

On 5 May 1927, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf was first published.

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child in a blended family of eight