Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882,from the intellectual Leslie Stephen. She grew up in the cultured world of the Londoner upper-middle class society. Both her mother and her father died when she was young, and this events influenced her life. In particular, after her father's dead she moved to Bloomsbury with her brothers and her sister and eventually joined the Bloomsbury Circle.
Virginia Woolf got married with the journalist and essayist Leonard Woolf, who founded with her Hogart Press, which published many important literary works including all Virginia Woolf's. Furthermore, her husband always supported her intellectually and emotionally, even when she had lesbian relationships or she felt depressed. Her nervous depressions followed her in the entire life time and was the cause of her suicide occurred in 1941. The action made by Virginia Woolf was linked to her fear of losing her mind and to the feeling of belonging to another age.
She criticised the traditional style and developed a new one linked to the idea of representing the sense of life in everyday events and to show human feelings and explore the inner part of a person. Also, Virginia Woolf was a feminist who sustained this cause in books like Room of One's Own and Three Guineas.