Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882. She grew up in an affluent and intellectual family, the daughter of Leslie Stephen, and was educated at home. Happy summers at St Ives in Cornwall later influenced To the Lighthouse. After her parents' deaths she and her brothers and sister moved to Bloomsbury, in London, where their home became a meeting place for writers, artists and thinkers known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 she married the writer Leonard Woolf, and in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press, which published her books and those of other writers. Her novels, including Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), use a 'stream of consciousness' style that follows the thoughts and feelings of characters from moment to moment. Orlando (1928) is a playful fantasy about a hero who lives for centuries. In the long essay A Room of One's Own (1929) she argued that a woman needs money and a room of her own if she is to write. Throughout her life she suffered periods of serious mental illness. She died in 1941.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; her parents were agnostics. Source: Wikipedia