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Virginia Woolf never attended school.
This is too absolute: Woolf did attend formal classes at King’s College London’s Ladies’ Department from 1897 to 1902.
Full reasoning
Woolf was not entirely educated at home. King’s College London, which preserves her student history, states that between ages 15 and 20 she studied at the King’s Ladies’ Department in Kensington, and that her courses from 1897 to 1902 included history, German, Latin, and elementary and advanced Greek. Another King’s page likewise says she was a student there and took classes between 1897 and 1902. So the unqualified claim that she “never attended school” is incorrect.
2 sources
- Educating Virginia Woolf | King's College London
Between the ages of 15 and 20 Woolf (then Adeline Virginia Stephen) took a variety of courses at the King's Ladies' Department in Kensington. Her studies between 1897 and 1902 were of considerable length and depth.
- Virginia Woolf Building (22 Kingsway) | King's College London
Virginia Woolf ... was a student at the former King's Ladies' Department where she took classes in Greek, Latin, history and German between 1897 and 1902.