Virginia Woolf's life summary

Virginia Woolf was born in London in a large and talented family. Her father was Leslie Stephen, the Victorian critic, philosopher, biographer and scholar. She educated herself in her father's library meeting many Victorians. When her father died she settled with her sister and two brothers in Bloomsbury. Here she founded the "Bloomsbury Group" with her literary and artistic friends. In this group they discussed about sexual topic and literary and artistic topics. Most of the members were bisexual, Virginia Woolf was bisexual too. After her marriage she fell in love with the poet Victoria Sackville-West and she wrote during this time Orlando. Her husband supported her emotionally and together they founded the Hogarth Press where they published some of the most interesting books- like Eliot's Poems and Homage to John Dryden and her own novels.

According to her ideals she was against the "materialism" and sought a more delicate rendering of those aspects of consciousness in which she felt that the truth of human experience really lay. She wrote her novels with the technique of the stream of consciousness and brought into prose fiction something of the rhythms and the imagery of lyric poetry.

She suicided in March 1941 because of her dread of World War II and her fear that she was about to lose her mind and become a burden on her husband.