Virginia Woolf's Biography

Virginia Woolf was born  in 1882 in London.. Her father was a famous  critic, philosopher and scholar; also for this reason Virgina grew up educated in a talented family and she had the possibility to study and use her father's magnificent library.

When her father died she moved to a London's district, Bloomsbury. Here she founded the               " Bloomsbury Group", to which belonged lots of important persons, such as the biographer L.Strachey, the economist J.M.Keynes, the art critic Roger Fry and her Sister's husband Clive Bell, who was an important art critic.

One of the most discussed topics was that about sex; the ideas of the group members were hazardous for the time. Some of the members were gay, some others were lesbians, some others else were bisexual, as Virginia Woolf was.

She had a relationship with an aristocratic woman, Harold Nicolson. During the period of this relationship the writer produced the most lighthearted and scintillating of her books.

She was fortunate to have a husband as supportive emotionally as he was intellectually.

Virginia and her husband founded the Hogarth Press  in 1917. It does not published only Virginia's works, but also Eliot's Poems and the English translation of Freud, Homage to John Dryden.

Mrs Woolf came naturally into the profession of writing. However her style and her way of make up novels were completely different from the traditional ones. More precisely she developed her own style, which handled the stream of consciousness, the shift of point of view, the interior monologue and a modulated poetic flow; she also brought into prose fiction something of the rhythms and the imagery of lyric poetry.

In 1941 she decided to commit suicide; she was about to lose her mind, and, above all, she was not still able to write, which was the activity which gave sense to her life.