• She was born in London
• She educated herself in her father's (Leslie Stephen, critic, philosopher, biographer ad scholar) library and learning Greek
• After 1904 she settled in Bloomsbury
• She took part of the "Bloomsbury Group" with Lytton Strachey, J.M. Keynes, Roger Fry and E.M. Forster
• Frank on sexual topic and sexual life, she was herself bisexual
• She married to Leonard Woolf, but she felt in love with the poet Vita (Victoria) Sackville-West
• During her sexual relationship she produced the most scintillating books (Orlando)
• She found in 1917 the Hogarth Press, that published some of her own novels.
• She lose her mind and she was subjected to period of depression. Because of her fear of WWII she suicide in 1941.

• She took part of the cultured world of the middle-class and upper-middle-class
• She rebelled against "materialism"
• She searched the truth of human experience with her works
• She handled the stream of consciousness and she explored problems of personal identity and relationships ns significance of time, change and memory
• She brought into prose fiction
• Monday or Tuesday (1921): collection (a sort of experiment) in which she moved between action and contemplation, external and inner events, retrospect and anticipation
• Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), Between the Acts (1941) were her most famous publications
• She was very concerned with the position of woman , as is notable in "A Room of One's Own" (1929) and "Three Guineas" (1938).
• She wrote critical essays collected in "The Common Reader" (1925) and "The Second Common Reader" (1932)
• She felt a different person living in a different age
• It is possible to understand her life, also thanks to "Letters" (1975-1980) and her "Diary" (1977-1984).
• She was one of the most coherent writer