ORLANDO - Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was born in Kensington, England, on January 25, 1882. Daughter of an affluent family, her father, Leslie Stephen, was an editor and literary critic. Influenced by her father and provided with a good education, Virginia developed an interest in the literary world.
While her siblings received their education at a school, she, on the other hand, was educated at home, a fact that left her quite irritated. At that time, women still did not have the opportunity to study outside the home, so she spent many afternoons reading books from her father's library.
When she was only 13 years old, her mother passed away, and almost 10 years later, her father. In 1905, alongside some artists, Virginia became part of the Bloomsbury Group. Meetings took place at her home, and the group's most important shared characteristics focused on criticizing bourgeois society, philosophy, aesthetics, arts, as well as leftist and liberal tendencies. The following year, one of her brothers passed away, a difficult and impactful moment in the writer's life. In 1912, she married writer and editor Leonard Woolf, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in London.
In 1915, she released her first novel, "The Voyage." From then on, Virginia began working as a writer, and it was only years later that she started gaining recognition with the publication of "Mrs. Dalloway" in 1925. Virginia Woolf died by suicide in Lewes, England, on March 28, 1941, at the age of 59. Prior to the tragic event, she wrote two letters, one to her husband and another to her older sister, Vanessa Bell. Virginia drowned in the River Ouse, having placed stones in the pockets of her coat.