Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was born in London and she is one of the greatest modernist writers. She grew up in the large family where she got a possibility to educated herself in the magnificent library. After her father's death she transferred to Bloomsbury and made part of the Bloomsbury group,intellectual circle of writers and artists. In the following period she organized evening gatherings for their friends, where they also discussed about sexual topics. Virginia Woolf was bisexual and her sexual life influenced her works, for example the effect of relationship with Vita Sackville-West,although she was married to Leaonard, is presented in Orlando(1928). In the 1917 she founded the Hogarth Press with her husband where were published all her and works of many other famous writers. There is a lot of things to say about her works because she was not only the novelist but also essayist, publisher etc. After two novels in traditional style she developed her own new style concentrating mostly to the human conscience where in her opinion was set human experience criticizing "materialist" novels. Her style was characterized by the stream of consciousness and it is called "poetic prose" because of rhythm and many poetic elements.In her novels she explores problems of personal identity, concept of time and memory. Another theme frequently analyzed by Virginia Woolf is the position of woman in the society.She also wrote many reviews and critical essays without authoritative tone but suggestive. Her life was characterized by madness, by period of nervous depression, so she could be defined a mad genius. She committed a suicide in March 1941 and that was result of her dread od WWII and of her fear that she would lose her mind.Also she did not want to be a burden for her husband.

Bibliography

Novels:

The Voyage Out (1915)

Night and Day (1919)

Jacob's Room (1922)

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

To the Lighthouse (1927)

Orlando: A Biography (1928)

The Waves (1931)

The Years (1937)

Between the Acts (1941)

Short stories:

"Moments of Being: ‘Slater's Pins have no Points’" (1928)

"The Duchess and the Jeweller" (1938)

"The New Dress" (1927)

"Happiness"

"Kew Gardens" (1919)

"The Evening Party" and mant other

Short Fiction Collections:

Two Stories (1917)

Monday or Tuesday (1921)

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944)

Mrs. Dalloway's Party (1973)

The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)

Biographies:

Orlando: A Biography

Flush: A Biography

Roger Fry: A Biography

Non-fiction. Essays:

A Room of One's Own (1929)

On Being Ill (1930)

Three Guineas (1938)

Modern Fiction (1919)

The Common Reader (1925)

The London Scene (1931)

The Common Reader: Second Series (1932) and many other letters, drama etc.