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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, 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

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

she started a relationship with the poet Victoria Sackville- Wes

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 her fear to lose her mind and become a burden on her husband

Between the Acts is published after her death