Virginia Woolf was born in 1882.

Her father was an eminent Victorian man of letters. By his view, women had to stay at home and do not receive an education. For this reason, her relation with his father was very suffered.

On the other hand, Virginia lived in an intellectual atmosphere thanks to her noble origins; and so, her education consisted of private Greek lessons. She also had access to her father’s library where she used to read whatever she liked.

Moreover, she used to spend her summers in Cornwall, where she loved looking the sea. The sea remained central to her art as a symbol; water represented two things for her: on one hand it represented something’s harmonious and feminine, on the other hand it stood for the possibility of the resolution of intolerable conflicts in death.

The death of her mother affected her deeply. After her death her relationship with her father started to be critic and it was only with her father’s death that Virginia began her own literary life and career.

Anyway, Virginia was very linked to her sister, in which she fed an ambiguous feeling: on one hand she admired her, which she was for her like a mother, and on the other hand she fed a feeling of envy, because she had three children and a happy sexual life, while Virginia was afraid about that, one reason is that she had been raped by her acquired brothers many times. But she early start a lesbian relation with Vita Sackville-West, which finally made her overcame her fear.

In addition, she became a member of the Bloomsbury Group, and then she merried Leonard Woolf, and published “The Voyage Out” in 1915. At this time she entered in a nursing home and attempted suicide by taking drugs. She also wrote “To the Lighthouse”, “Orlando”, “The Common Reader”, “A Room of One’s Own” and finally “The Waves”, in 1931, in which she seemed to recognise that there was a link between her creative process and her illness. The second World War increased her anxiety and fears. She was affected of bipolar disorder. She became haunted by the terror of loosing her mind. Finally she could stand it no longer and drowned herself in the River Ouse at the age of twenty-five.