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    Woolf lived with her parents in downtown London, near Hyde Park.  Her early education was completed at home by her parents.

    Her mother died suddenly in 1895, and her half-sister died two years later. As a result, the 15-year-old Woolf suffered several mental breakdowns.

    Later, she revealed in her autobiography "The Moment of Existence" that she and her sister Vanessa Bell had been sexually assaulted by their half-brother.  After the death of her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, in 1904, she and Vanessa moved to Bloom.  Later they and several friends founded the Bloomsbury Literary Group.

    She began her professional writing career in 1905, initially as a contributor to The Times Literary Supplement.

    In 1915, her first novel "The Voyage" was published, and her subsequent works were deeply loved by critics and readers.  Most of the works are promoted by the Hogarth Press established by himself.

    Woolf is known as the great novelist of the 20th century and the pioneer of the modernist literary trend; however, she herself did not like some modernist authors, such as Joyce.

    She made a lot of innovations in the English language and tried the stream-of-consciousness writing method in her novels, trying to describe the subconscious in people's hearts.

    Edward Morgan Foster said she took English a small step in a brighter direction.  Her achievements and innovations in literature still have influence today.

    Her popularity declined after World War II, but with the rise of feminism in the 1970s, she became the subject of literary attention again.

    Woolf suffered from severe depression. She once mentioned in a letter to a friend in 1936: Never believe my letter. I won¡¯t lie to you. Before I wrote this letter, I stayed up all night, staring at a bottle of trichloride.  Acetaldehyde, muttering no, no, you can¡¯t drink it.

    March 28, 1941.  After filling her pockets with stones, she committed suicide by throwing herself into the River Ouse near her home in Rodmeier, leaving a suicide note for her husband.  Woolf and James Joyce were born in the same year and died in the same year. Both are representative writers of stream of consciousness.

    Most recent research on Woolf focuses on three directions: feminism, homosexuality and history of depression.  An example of this is the 1997 series of literary criticism by R.

    In 1966, Elizabeth Taylor starred in the movie "Whoslf" (whoslf?), but the name of this movie has nothing to do with lf, but is an adaptation of a British nursery rhyme.  Named whosafraidofthe badwolf?

    In 2002, there was a movie "The Hours" based on Woolf's story while writing "Mrs. Dalloway".  The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, but did not win.

    But the film¡¯s protagonist, Nicole Kidman, won the Best Actress Award.  The film is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham.

    The film title The Hours is the temporary name given by Woolf to Mrs. Dalloway during the creation period.  However, some scholars who study Woolf are very dissatisfied with the image of Woolf in the film.

    One of the Demon Guardians - Adam Smith

    Adam, Smith (English: adams fanth, 1723©¤1790).  Also translated as Adam Smith, Adam Smith was a British Scottish philosopher and economist. His "The Wealth of Nations" became the first book to attempt to explain the history of European industrial and commercial development.

    This book developed the modern discipline of economics and provided the theoretical basis for modern free trade, capitalism, and libertarianism.

    Adam Smith was born in Coca-Card, Fife, Scotland.  When he was about 4 years old, Adam Smith was abducted by a group of gypsies, but was quickly rescued by his uncle.

    ?At about 14 years old.  Adam Smith entered the University of Glasgow, where he studied moral philosophy under the eternal (as Adam Smith called him) Hutcheson.

    Adam Smith developed his passion for liberty, reason, and free speech during this period.

    In 1740 he entered Balliol College, Oxford University, but he later said that his time at Oxford had little influence on his subsequent life work, and he left Oxford University in 1746.

    In 1748, he began lecturing at the University of Edinburgh under the patronage of Henry Home.  Originally directed at rhetoric and pure literature.  But then he began to study the development of wealth, and when he was nearly 30 years old, he formulated for the first time a clear and simple system of natural freedom in economic philosophy. He later wrote these theories in the "Wealth of Nations" known simply as the Wealth of Nations.  In the book "A Study of the Nature and Causes of

    Around 1750 he met David Hume.  The two became close friends.  He also met some of the men who would later become the driving forces behind the Scottish Enlightenment.

    Adam Smith¡¯s father has a lot to say about Christianity?Strong interest and affiliation with the moderate Presbyterian Church of Scotland.  Adam Smith may have traveled to England to seek a career in the Church of England: but the authenticity of this remains disputed.  Why he renounced his faith and returned to Scotland remains unknown, but it is certain that by this time Adam Smith had become a deist.

    In 1751 Adam Smith was appointed Professor of Logic at the University of Glasgow.  In 1752 he was appointed professor of moral philosophy.

    His lectures covered the fields of ethics, rhetoric, law, political economy, and public security and taxation.

    In 1759 he published The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which crystallized part of his lectures in Glasgow.  The publication of these studies, which gave Adam Smith widespread fame at the time, focused on how humans communicate through emotional interactions between mediators and bystanders (that is, how individuals interact with other members of society).

    His research on language development is relatively superficial.  Adam Smith's fluent, persuasive, and even gorgeous argument is quite outstanding. The basis of his argument is neither based on special conscience like Shaftesbury and Hutcheson, nor based on utilitarianism like Hume.  Rather, it is based on compassion.

    Adam Smith¡¯s lectures gradually moved away from moral theory and focused instead on law and economics.  The development of his ideas during this period can be traced from lecture notes transcribed by one of his students in 1763.

    Toward the end of 1763, the politician Charles Townsend, the man who introduced Smith to David Hume, offered Adam Smith a more lucrative job as personal servant to his son, the future Duke of Bruce.  Tutoring.

    Adam Smith resigned from his professorship at the university and traveled to Europe with his disciples from 1764 to 1766, mostly in France, where Smith also met many intellectual elites, such as Anello Belle Jacques Du  Ergot and d'Alembert, and especially Fran?ois Quesnay - leader of the Physiocratic school, whose theories Adam Smith held in great esteem.

    After returning to CocoCard Land, Adam Smith devoted the next ten years to writing his masterpiece - "A Study into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", also known as "The Wealth of Nations", published in 1776.
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