Virginia Woolf Early life, famous works and death

Virginia Woolf Profile

Name : Virginia Woolf

Full Name : Adeline Virginia Stephen

Birth Date : 25 January 1882

Birth Place : South Kensington, London, England

Death Date : 28 March 1941

Death Place : Lewes, England

Death of Age : 59

Cause of Death : Suicide

Occupation : Novelist, Essayist, Publisher, Critic

Alma mater : King's College London

Zodiac Sign : Aquarius

Parents : Leslie Stephen (Father), Julia Stephen (Mother)

Siblings :

1. Vanessa Bell (Sister)
2. Thoby Stephen (Brother)
3. Adrian Stephen (brother)
4. Stella Duckworth (half-sister)
5. Laura Makepeace Stephen (half-sister)
6. Gerald Duckworth (half-brother)
7. George Herbert Duckworth (half-brother)

Spouse : Leonard Woolf (m. 1912-1941)

Children : No

Relatives : 

1. James Stephen ( Grandfather)
2. James Fitzjames Stephen ( Uncle)
3. James Kenneth Stephen (cousin)
4. Harry Lushington Stephen (cousin)
5. Katharine Stephen (cousin)
6. Angelica Garnett ( Niece)
7. Judith Henderson ( Niece)
8. Julian Bell ( Nephew)
9. Quentin Bell ( Nephew)

Notable Works

1. The Voyage Out (1915)
2. Mrs Dalloway (1925)
3. The common reader (1925)
4. To the Lighthouse (1927)
5. Orlando: A Biography (1928)
6. A Room of One's Own (1929)
7. The Waves (1931)
8. Jacob's room (1922)
9. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1921)
10. Monday or Tuesday (1921)
11. The Mark on the Wall (1917)
12. Between the Acts (1941)
13. The Death of the Moth (1942)
14. Night and Day (1919)
15. The Years (1937)
16. Three Guineas (1938)
17. Flush: A Biography (1933)
18. A Writer's Diary (1953)

Early Life

Her full name is Adeline Virginia Woolf. She was born on January 25,1882, London. Her father's name is Sir Leslie Stephen and his name is Julia Princes Duckworth Stephen. Father Sir Leslie was a renowned historian, writer, critic and mountain climber. Father's writing encouraged Virginia to be literary. Virginia's mother Julia Stephen was born in British India Later she returned to England. Virgin's parents both are second married. In her childhood, Virginia Woolf lived in the same family with some of her siblings.

Virginia Woolf Literary works

As a career, Woolf started writing in 1900. Her first writing was published in ''Times Literary Supplement''. Her first novel, "The Voice Out", was published in 1915. Her writing was published by Gerald Duckworth Company Ltd, her brother company. He is the publisher of most of her writings. It was published by Hogarth Press.

Virginia Woolf was the Modern period writer. The modern period comprises two shorter ages or periods. So She was also a Georgian period feminine writer. The period between 1910 to 1936 is called Georgian period after the name of George V. 

Who resigned over England during these years. She is a twentieth-century feminist writer. The history of Europe records that has been no continuous writing by women before the eighteen century. Woolf examined many experiments on the psychological and emotional issues of the characters in her writings. After World War II, her reputation declined slightly. They could not write as habitually as men or couldn't write any classics of English fiction To be precise the history of English in the history of the male, not of the female. Women lacked experience and inspiration. They were important as mothers, grandmothers, wives, lover, and daughters etc. Women were focused on beautiful their colour, their style and their graces and charms etc. Women were important emotionally and domestically. There has been no benevolent dramatist or poet in England.  A property man was most covetous among the spinsters. It was important to get married. Girls made themselves busy to look for a husband. Love and marriage is the central action of the Virginia Woolf novel.

Law and custom were largely responsible for such intermissions of silence on the part of the women. Women had no liberty even in matters of love and marriage. They had to comply with the wishes of their parents. Such plight of women is presented by some of the authors like John Keats, Carlyle in their letters. However, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, there have been changes in law, customs and manners, and the women of the nineteenth century greater liberties. They had an education. They were free even to choose husbands for themselves.

Death

After completing the last novel 'Between the Acts' of Virginia Woolf, she started to undergo depression. The destruction of London's home in World War II is a reason behind it.  However earlier she was also mentally ill due to various reasons. On March 28, 1941, Woolf admitted her pockets of overcoat with heavy stones and committed suicide in the Oguz river. On April 18th, her body was found in the river. Rommel, under an elm tree in the Mank House of Sussex

 Virginia Woolf Famous book

1. The Voyage Out 

2. Night and Day
3. Mrs Dalloway
4. To the Lighthouse 
5. The Waves 
6. Flush 
7. The Years
8. Three Guineas 
9. Orlando