»The Duchess and the Jeweller« is a short story by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1938.
VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882â1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacobâs Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of Oneâs Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the womenâs movement in many countries.
