Briti kirjanduse portfoolio
member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway
(1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of
One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her
own if she is to write fiction."
Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London to Sir Leslie Stephen, considered the father of the
Bloomsbury Group, and Julia Prinsep Stephen (born Jackson) (18461895), she was educated
by her parents in their literate and well-connected household at 22 Hyde Park Gate,
Kensington.
Virginia Stephen married writer Leonard Woolf in 1912.
On 28 March 1941, rather than having another nervous breakdown, Woolf drowned herself by
weighing her pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse near her home. Her body
was not found until April 18. Her husband buried her remains under a tree in the garden of
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