Virginia Woolf- Life and Works.

Virginia Woolf was born in London.  After her father’s death in 1904 she settled with her sister and two brothers in Bloomsbury(district of London which later was to become associated with her). The “Bloomsbury Group” included a biographer, an economist and an art critic.

Virginia was bisexual; when she was married with the journalist and essayist Leonard Woolf, she felt in love with the poet Victoria Sackville-West, who was already married.
Virginia’s relationship with the aristocratic lesbian produce the most lighthearted and scintillating of her books, Orlando.
Together with her husband, she founded the Hogarth Press in 1917 (a press that published some of the most interesting literature of our time).

Virginia Woolf became depressed, particularly after finishing a book, so in March 1914 she committed suicide because of her dread of World War II and her fear that she was about to lose her mind.

The world of Virginia Woolf, as a writer and artist, was from the beginning the cultured world of the middle-classes and upper-middle-classes London intelligentsia. She rebelled against materialism of some novelist.
Her own style handled the stream of consciousness with a carefully modulated poetic flow and brought into prose fiction something of the rhythms and the imagery of lyric poetry.  Mrs Dalloway (1925) was the first completely successful novel in her new style. She was one of the most exponent of the stream of consciousness technique in her novels because she explores problems of personal identity and personal relationships as well as the significance of time, change, and memory for human personality.
She wrote lot of cogent essays about the position of woman, such as “Three Guineas”; she wrote also great reviews and critical essays such as “The common reader”.