Virginia Woolf was born on January 25th, 1882 in London. She was one of the most important Modernist writers of the 20^th century. Virginia was born to Sir Leslie Stephen a notable historian, critic and Julia Prinsep. She had a lot of stepbrothers because her parents had two marriage. She was educated by her parents in her house, in which she read a lot of book of her family bookcase.

Virginia spent a lot of her childhood to St. Ives in Cornwall and in her books there were reference to these landscape. The sudden death of her mother when Virginia was thirteen and her sister Stella provoked several nervous breakdowns. But she continued her studies and she met important writers that were friends of her father.

When her father died in 1904 she had a collapse and the several breakdowns were the consequences of sexual abuses of her stepbrothers. She went in Bloomsburry with her brother and her sister Vanessa. Virginia formed with other writers Bloomsbury Group, intellectual circle.

Virginia married the writer Leonard Woolf in 1912 and they shared a close bond. They collaborated and in 1917 they founded Hogarth Press in which published the most important authors and Virginia Woolf novels.

In her works she used the stream of consciousness an innovation for her time. Virginia would convey real life to readers, for this reason there were some narration and emotion of characters to explained real and interior reality.

She felt in depression during the Second World War because she was frightened by it and in 28 March 1941 she suicide in the river Ouse.