Virginia Woolf was born in London to Sir Leslie (biographer, scholar, philosopher and critic) and Julia Stephen. She educated herself in her father's magnificent library, meeting many eminent Victorians.

After her father's death she had to move with her siblings to Bloomsbury, taht district of London which later was to become associated with her and the group among whom she moved.

The "Bloomsbury group" included Lytton Strachey, the biographer, J.M. Keynes, the celebrated economist, Roger Fry, an art critic and E.M. Forster.

When her sister got married she bought a house in Bloomsbory for her and her brother. They were both intelligent and frank people. Their sexual life provided material of discussion in the Bloomsbury group.

Virginia Woolf was bisexual. Even if she got married with the journalist Leonard Woolf, she fell passionately in love with the poet Vita Sackville-West. The relationship between the two women, produced Orlando in 1928.

However their marriage withstood this and other strains. They founded the Hogharth Press in 1917, a press that published some of the most interesting literature of the time.

Virginia Woolf came naturally into the profession of writing. She had always been part of cultural groups. SHe rebelled against the conventions of the time and rebuilt the concept of fiction.

After writing two novels following the conventions of her time, she developed her own style which handled the stream of consciousness with a carefully modulated poetic flow.

In her books she talks about problems of personal identity and relationship as well as the importance of time, change and memory. She wrote many novels and short stories, but also biographies and hundreds of book reviews and long essays. Her novels: Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Between the Acts. Her essays: A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, The Common Reader.She committed suicide in March 1942 because of her dread of World War II and her fear that she was about to lose her mind and so to become a burden on her husband.

She underwent many depression periods, in particular after finishing some books.