Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882.

She received a good education thanks to her father acquaintances, in fact he was a scholar.

After his death, Virginia went with her brother and her sister to live in Bloomsbury, a district of London, where they took part at the "Bloomsbury group" with other intellectuals. In this association members discussed about ample materials included sexual topics; many members were bisexual, Virginia Woolf too. In fact after her marriage with the journalist Leonard Woolf, she felt in love with a woman (Victoria Sackville-West) who inspired her the writing of Orlando.

She came naturally into the profession of writing and founded with her husband the Hogarth Press, which published some of the most famous literary works of the time.

She was emotionally instable, especially when she finished a book, in fact she committed suicide in 1941, a result from her dread of World War II and her fear to lose her mind.

Virginia Woolf, after two novels  written in the traditional form, developed a personal style which was based on the "stream of consciousness". The firts novel in which she used this style was "Monday or Tuesday", but this was only an experiment which made possible the realization of other famous works such as "Mrs Dalloway". Virginia also wrote many critical essay collected in "The common Reader".