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Virginia Woolf

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    Born/Died Dates

    She was born at 22 Hyde Park Gate in South Kensington, London.
    She died on 28th March 1941. She drowned herself by filling her overcoat with stones and walking into the river near home.
  • Mental Health

    Mental Health

    From the age of 13, following the death of her mother, Woolf suffered periodic mood swings from severe depression to manic excitement, including psychotic episodes, which the family referred to as her "madness".
  • Woolf began writing professionally

    Woolf began writing professionally

  • Father's Death

  • Marriage

    Marriage

    She married Leonard Woolf. He was one of Thoby Stephen's friends at Trinity College, Cambridge, and noticed the Stephen sisters in Thoby's rooms there on their visits to the May Ball in 1900 and 1901.
  • First Novel

    First Novel

    The Voyage Out
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    Best-known works

    • Mrs Dalloway (1925)
    • To the Lighthouse (1927)
    • Orlando (1928)
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    Best-known nonfiction works

    • A room of One's Own (1929)
    • Three Guineas (1938)