The Life of Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is one of the greatest innovative novelists of the 20th century. She was born in London in an upper middle class, talented family. After the death of her father she settled with her sister and two brothers of hers in the  district of Bloomsbury. Here she was in touch with artists, writers and cultural people in  general. They had intelligent and sparkling conversations even on sexual topics. They had a free attitude towards sex.

Virginia Woolf herself, even thought being married with a supportive, intellectual man, had bisexual, lesbian relations.

She committed suicide in 1941 during a period of nervous depression, being also terrorized by World War II.

She began to write as a child. She rebelled against materialism and traditional novels. She developed her own style which brought together the flow of consciousness and lyric poetry (Jacob's Rom - Mrs Dalloway) (to the Lighthouse, the Waves).

She was concerned with the woman condition on the professional point of view. She wrote a lot of reviews and critical essays.

Very interesting are the 6 volumes collecting her letters and the 5 volumes of her "Diary".