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Adeline Virginia Stephen (name being single) was born on January 25, 1882, in London, she was a writer who revolutionized the narrative in the twentieth century. She also defended the rights of women through her texts.
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Daughter of Leslie Stephen, a prominent literary critic, historian, and famous mountaineer, and Julia Prinsep Stephen, who was born in India but moved to England, working as a model for painters. Since her parents have already married other people, Adeline Virginia had three stepbrothers.
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Both Adeline Virginia and her stepbrothers were homeschooled by tutors and from their father. Because the Stephen family had a large library, Virginia and her sister Vanessa had many facilities to learn about the works of the English classics, which had a great impact on what they would do in the future.
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Adeline Virginia and her family spent their summer vacations in Cornwall between 1882 and 1894, until Virginia was 12 years old; that place inspired her for her future work.
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On May 5, 1895, her mother died as a result of rheumatic fever; two years after her her stepsister Stella hers, who took the place of her mother died of peritonitis. When she, Virginia, was 13 years old, she suffered constant abuse from her stepbrothers as well as her sister Vanessa, from those moments she had mistrust and disgust towards men.
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Virginia suffered from depressive moods, today diagnosed as bipolar personality disorder.
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In 1905, her father passed away from cancer, Virginia being only 23 years old; She along with her siblings Virginia moved to Gordon Square in Bloomsbury, where they met with people of the same age as hers creating a group naming it "Bloomsbury" since they all had in common a political and moral anti-conformity towards the upper class .
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Adeline Virginia began writing articles for the newspaper "The Guardian", in addition to accepting the invitation to teach at Morley College.
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In 1912, Virginia married Leonard Woolf, who was a Jewish writer, economist, and member of the Bloomsbury group.
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In 1917, Virginia Woolf (named after marriage and mostly known) and her husband Leonard Woolf founded the celebrated Hogarth Press publisher. There they edited the work of Virginia and other writers.
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In 1922, Virginia met the writer Vita Sackville-West, with whom she had a loving relationship, despite also being married. Vita was a literary muse for Virginia; They ended their relationship without their marriages dissolving and maintaining a friendship for the rest of their lives.
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In 1925, Virginia Woolf achieved great success with her novel "Mrs. Dalloway", possibly her best known work.
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In 1927, Virginia published her novel entitled “To the lighthouse”.
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In 1928, Virginia Woolf dedicated the work "Orlando: A Biography" to Vita.
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In 1929, she wrote a short essay: “A room of one's own”, which deals with the difficulties suffered by writers and intellectual women due to the fact that men have legal and economic power. disproportionate about them.
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In 1938 she wrote "Three Guineas", an essay in which she continued with feminist themes, also fascism and war. Virginia and her husband Leonard feared the fascism of the 1930s as they knew they were on Hitler's blacklist.
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In 1940, at the outbreak of World War II, the house shared by Virginia Woolf and her husband was destroyed during a German bombing. Leonard Woolf, being Jewish, ran a great risk, so they decided that, in that case, they would both commit suicide.
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On March 28, 1941, because of Virginia Woolf's mental problems as well as the devastating effects of the war, she was unable to cope with her despair; that day Virginia Woolf put on her coat and stuffed her pockets with stones, then went into the Ouse River to end her life. Before her decision, she left two letters, one for her sister Vanessa hers and one for her husband Leonard Woolf. Her body was found three weeks later.
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British writer Virginia Woolf is still recognized today as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. In addition, she was a pioneering feminist, advocate for women's rights, and a brilliant intellectual and great innovator in literature.
