Virginia Woolf's Life

1882: she was born in London, daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, in a large and talented family

1895: her mother died

1904: her father died, so she settled with her sisters and two brothers in Bloomsbury

1905: she started her writing carrier, with reference to the Times

1907: she took with the brother Adrian another house in Bloomsbury, which became a center of literary entertainment for  the "Bloomsbury Group" ( V. Woolf, L. Strachey, J. M. Keynes, R. Fry, E. M. Forster)

1912: she married Leonard Woolf, a journalist and essayist of the time

1917: she founded with her husband the Hogarth Press, which published some of the interesting literature of the time

1921: she published Monday or Tuesday, a collection of Woolf's investigations about the possibilities of moving between action and contemplation and the flow of consciousness.

1922: she published Jacob's Room

1925: she published Mrs Dalloway, the first completely successful novel in Woolf' s particular writing style 

1925: she realized the first collection of her critical essay and reviews, The Common Reader

1925: she started a relationship with the poet Victoria Sackville- West

1927. she published To the Lighthouse

1928: she published the most lighthearted and scintillating of her books, Orlando

1929: she wrote A Room of Ones' Own

1931: she published The Waves, the most stylized of her novels

1932: The collection of critical essay The Second Common Reader is ultimate

1937: she wrote the novel The Years

1938. she wrote Three Guineas( a part of The Years at the beginning) focusing her attention on the position of women in her contemporary society

1941: she committed suicide, because of her dread of World war II and fear to lose her mind and become a burden on her husband

1941: Between the Acts is published after her death