Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. Her father, Leslie Stephen, was a critic, philosopher, biographer and scholar and he educaded her togerther with his wife. Virginia Woolf had a classic education, she used her father's library and she met many eminent Victorans. Her mother and father's death in 1885 and 1904 caused her the first psychic problems. After her father's death she settled with her sister and two brother in Bloomsbury where "Bloomsbury Group" was created. It was an intellectual circle formed by many artists, included Leonard Woolf who became her husband in 1912. After the completation of her first book The Voyage out in 1913 she was affected by depression. In 1917 she founded together with her husband the Hogarth Press, a press that published the works of great writers. In 1919 she published the short story Kew Gardens, in 1920 the novel Night and day, in 1921 the short story Monday or Tuesday, in 1924 the essay Mrs Bennet and Mrs Brown, and in 1925 and in 1927 the novels Mrs Dalloway and To the lighthouse in which she used for the first time the internal monologue. In 1928 she wrote Orlando, probably influenced by her relationship with the poet Vita Sackville-West. Vriginia Woolf was interested in the woman's condition indeed she wrote some text about this theme. In 1940, during the writing of the novel Between the acts she often suffered from depression which reaced their peak in 1941 when she committed suicide.