1882: birth of Virginia Woolf

1895: her mother’s death

1904: her father’s death; she tried to suicide; she settled in Bloomsbury

1905: she began her job career as writer

1910: the foundation of the Bloomsbury group, that was a circle of intellectuals

1912: she married Leonard Woolf

1915: she published her first novel, The voyage out

1925: she published her most famous novels, Mrs Dalloway

1928: she termed the novel Orlando

1940: Virginia Woolf’s house is destroyed by a German bombardment

1941: Woolf’s suicide caused by her mental illness

1941: publication of her last work, Between the Acts