The life of the authoress

Virginia Woolf was born in London, daughter of Leslie Stephen, a Victorian critic and at the same time philosopher, biographer and  scholar. She passed  her adolescence in her father's library, meeting the most important eminent Victorians.

When she was twenty-two years old she became resident in Bloomsbury and few years later, the authoress entered in the "Bloomsbury Group". The group included the most important point of reference for several English intellectuals.

Their bisexual relations were a topic of discussion for people, but thanks of this and her condition she could write her famous books “Orlando”.

Nevertheless she was bisexual she was married to Leonard Woolf: together they created the “Hogart Press”, a press that published the most interesting literature of their time as Eliot and Freud.

Virginia killed herself in March 1941 because of her depression.

Although she killed herself, she began a famous writer publishing many novels and stories, in particular the first World War influenced her composition that thank of this she could use the technique of monologue to present the character’s thoughts.