Virginia Woolf time line

•è   Virginia Adeline Woolf born in 1882 to London by wealthly family. His father was the famous critic and historian of the most famous of the Victorian era, Sir Leslie Stephen, the editor of a Dictionary of National Biografy.

•è   In 1888, Virginia Woolf was sexually abused by his brother George. This event helped to raise what would be his mental problems.

•è   In 1895 his mother died, and she became depress.

•è   In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a famous journalist of the time.

•è   In 1913, after completing his first novel The Voyage Out, attempted suicide with ingesting drugs.

•è   In 1917 with her husband founded the publishing house Hogarth Press.

•è   In 1919 she wrote Night and Day critical high society, the plot is centered on two women, the sweet Katherine Hilbert and emancipated Mary Datchet.

•è   In 1922 she wrote Jacob's Room, the first experiment of the new narrative technique developed by Virginia Woolf, with the abandonment of the traditional chronological sequences and narrative technique.

•è   It tells of a young student at the University of Cambridge, his loves and his travels in France and Greece. Of his death during the war. We know all of the boy's life through the thoughts and memories of those who knew him. He continues to live through the memory.

•è   Orlando writes in 1928, which tells the story of a charming lady who lives across the centuries changing sex many times.

•è   In 1931 she wrote The Waves a kind of prose poem, where impressions of some of the characters are presented through a series of monologues.

•è   In 1941 she wrote the Acts Beetween is revealed as the most poetic of the novels of the writer, who seeks a narrative form appropriate to attempt to express their own world of subtle perceptions and changing. The book lacks a real conclusion, because was written shortly before his death.

•è   March 28, 1941 gripped by a crisis of anguish, Virginia decides to commit suicide. Sneaking out of the house and fell into the river Ouse drowning. He left a short letter to her husband.