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She was born in Kensington, London, England. -
Her parents were Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) who was a notable historian, author, critic and mountaineer and Julia Prinsep DuckWorth (1846-1895), a renowned beauty. -
Her most childhood memories were of St.Ives in Cornwall where the family spent every summer until 1895. This place inspired her to write one of her masterpieces, “To the Lighthouse” -
The sudden death of her mother in 1895, when Virginia was 13, and that of her half-sister Stella two years later, led to the first of the Virginia’s several nervous breakdowns.
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But it was the death of her father in 1904 that made her most alarming collapse and she was briefly institutionalized. -
Her mental instability was also due to the sexual abuse to which she and her sister Vanessa Bell were subjected by their half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth. -
Virginia came to know the founders of the Bloomsbury Group. She became an active member of this literary circle. -
Virginia Stephen married writer Leonard Woolf on 10 August 1912. She despite his low material status. -
Virginia’s most famous works includes the novels Mrs.Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and the book-length essay A room of one’s own (1929) -
She was novelist, essayist, publishers, feminist and critic. -
Between the Acts, her last novel, Virginia fell onto a depression similar to that which she had earlier experienced. -
On 28 March 1941, Woolf suicide himself. Wolf’s body was not found until 18 April 1941. Her husband buried her cremated remains under an elm in the garden of Monk’s house, their home in Rodwell, Sussex.