Virginia wolf

VIRGINIA WOOLF

BIOGRAPHY:
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the most important modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Also she was socialist and pacifist.
Virginia Stephen, the daughter of Leslie Stephen and Julia Duckworth, was born at London, on 25th January 1882. Her father was the author of several important literary works and part of the English "intellectual aristocracy”. Virginia had a sister and two brothers: Vanessa Stephen, Thoby Stephen and Adrian Stephen.
When her mother died, she had her first mental breakdown and when her father died she had another one and tried to commit a suicide.
Virginia’s strongest memories from childhood were that her brother used to humiliate and explore her private parts, what made her feel a certain resistance to masculine authority and contact.
In 1912 she got married with Leonard Woold and then, together they founded Hogarth Press , a publisher that found important writers.
Virginia Woolf used to have depressive crisis, that’s why in 1941 she left a message for her sister and husband saying goodbye to the people she loved and committed suicide.

MAIN WORKS: During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), the waves (1931), Orlando (1928), and A Room of One's Own (1929)
Her first novel was A Voyage Out (1915) and it was published by her half-brother Gerald Duckworth, she started working on it since 1908 and finished it in 1913.
Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931) were the three novels that are generally considered her greatest claim to fame as a leading modernist writer.
Orlando (1928) was a novel inspired by her involvement with the aristocratic novelist/poet.
A Room of One's Own (1929), is a feminist book that discusses women’s writing and social.

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