Virginia+Wolf

Overall Virginia Woolf was an __//english novelist, feminist, essayist, and publisher//__

She lived from January 25, 1882 until March 28, 1941. She was born under the name **Adeline Virginia Stephen** in London, educated by both her parents. Although she was born in London, she spent many summers with her family in St. Ives; her experiences in St. Ives was her inspiration in writing //[|To the Lighthouse]// in 1927//.// Throughout her life, she went through many depressing experiences, resulting in nervous breakdowns. On the day of her death, she drowned herself with heavy stones in her pockets and went to the River Ouse near her home. Her body wasn't retrieved until April 18.

During her life, at the age of thirteen, in 1895 Virginia witnessed the death of her mother and then the death of her step-sister two years after. In 1904, the death of her fath made her collapde and she had to be institutionalized. This caused her to have many nervous breakdowns. As she got older she married a man named Leonard Woolf who was a writer.
 * __Her Youthful Years__**

Woolf was a victim of bipolar disorder; it helped her writing become more creative; but it stymied her relationships with her family & love life. Bipolar disorder basically makes you have all these different mood swings. It's a mood disorder in which you have mixed episodes like one moment you're nomal and the next, you're just depressed. Because of her disorder; she couldn't concentrate on her work. She considered herself mad saying that she heard voices, and had visions. Virginia became an English novelist and an essayist. She was one of the literary figures in the 20th century in London. She was a very significant figure in the London literary society during the inter war period.

In her work she liked to examine the different positions that women had in history and their desire for independence. Many reoccurring themes in her book include gender relations, class hierarchy, and the consequences of war.
 * __Her Work__**

She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Virginia's most famous novels were [|//Mrs Dalloway//] ([|1925]) and Orlando (1928). Her most famous essay was A Room of One's Own (1929). Virginia Wolf was married to Leonard Woolf. The people she was influenced by were [|George Eliot], [|Leo Tolstoy], [|Marcel Proust], [|James Joyce]. The people she influenced were [|Michael Cunningham], [|Sylvia Plath], [|Edna O'Brien], [|Ian McEwan].

After marrying Leonard they both got themselves into the publishing business and then in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press. They choose to publish the works of many famous writers like T.S. Elliot, and Katherine Mansfield.

Virginia fell into a huge depression after completing the manuscript of her last novel, Between the Acts.
 * Her Death**