# Virginia Woolf

## Biography

Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London on January 25, 1882, into an eminent literary family. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a notable intellectual, and she was largely educated at home, benefiting from his vast library though she resented the lack of formal schooling afforded to her brothers. After her father's death in 1904, she and her siblings moved to Bloomsbury, where she became a founding member of the influential Bloomsbury Group. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, and together they established the Hogarth Press in 1917, which published many of her innovative works. Woolf became a leading figure of modernism, pioneering the use of stream-of-consciousness narration in novels such as Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando. Her feminist essay A Room of One's Own also profoundly impacted literary thought. Throughout her life, Woolf grappled with significant mental health issues, ultimately dying by suicide in 1941.

## Books

- [Night and Day](https://samolit.com/books/96630)
- [The Voyage Out](https://samolit.com/books/96625)