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Virginia Woolf Timeline

By ajuanc19
  • Birth

    Birth

    Adeline Virginia Stephen was born on January 25, 1882 in Kensington, (London).
  • First depressive episode

    First depressive episode

    Following her mother's death, Virginia has her fist episode of major depression at the age of 13.
  • Mental breakdown and first suicide attempt

    Mental breakdown and first suicide attempt

    Virginia's father dies, which prompts a major mental breakdown. She tries to end her life by jumping out of a window, but is unsuccessful. She is committed to a mental institution.
  • Bloomsbury Group

    Bloomsbury Group

    The Bloomsbury group is formed, consisting mainly of scholars, artists, and authors, begins meeting in Vanessa Bell's house.
  • Beginning of her professional writing career

    Beginning of her professional writing career

    She gets a job as a contributor to the "Times Literary Supplement" and also has a few other jobs like teaching or reading to elderly people. Because women did not work in many fields at that time, her options were rather limited.
  • Marriage to Leonard Woolf

    Marriage to Leonard Woolf

    Virginia Stephens becomes Virginia Woolf when she marries Leonard Woolf.
  • First novel : The Voyage Out

    First novel : The Voyage Out

    Virginia publishes her fist novel, titled The Voyage Out.
  • Period: to

    Other books and novels

    Night and Day (1919) Jacob's Room (1922) Orlando (1928) The Waves (1931) Three Guineas (1938) Between the Acts (1941)
  • Virginia kills herself

    Virginia kills herself

    Virginia writes a suicide note to her sister and her husband, then fills her pockets with stones and walks into the Ouse River where she drowns herself.