Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Writer

1882-1941


Virginia Woolf


British Writer
Born Adeline Virginia Steven on 25th January 1882, the daughter of the editor and critic Lesley Steven. Her early education was home education where she had the use of her fathers extensive library. During the years leading up to the first world war, Virginia Woolf lived in Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, where she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey, J.M. Keynes and Roger Fry. They founded the Bloomsbury Group. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912, and they founded the Hogarth press in 1917.

Virginia Woolf sister of Vanessa Bell Thoby Steven and Adrian Steven, Wife of Leonard Woolf. Lesbian lover of Vita Sackville West.

Throughout her life Virginia suffered a long history of Mental Illness. In March 1941, her mental condition deteriorated alarmingly and unable to face another bout of illness, Virginia Woolf took her own life. By the time of her death she had gained a prominent place in English letters, as a great novelist and essayist, feminist and modernist.


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