Virginia Woolf was born in London and her father’name was Leslie Stephen who edited the Dictionary of National Biography.
The family of Virginia spent their summer holidays in St Ives, Cornwall, and St Ives was the setting for her novel To the Lighthouse.
Virginia suffered mental illness and she had several mental breakdowns in her life.
Virginia’s brother Thoby went to Cambridge. There Thoby made friends with Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Lytton Strachey, and Maynard Keynes. This was the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group.
Virginia married to Leonard Wool on 10 August 1912.
Her first two long novels were The Voyage Out and Night and Day.
In 1917 the Woolfs had bought a small hand printing-press and that was the starting of the Hogarth Press.
Jacob’s Room (1922) was her first experimental novel.
Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves are generally considered to be her greatest claim to fame as a modernist writer.
Virginia Woolf committed suicide by drowning in the River Ouse near Monks House on 28 March 1941.
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