In 1941, fearing another attack of mental illness, she drowned herself. Woolf lived an energetic life among friends and family, reviewing and writing, and dividing her time between London and the Sussex Downs. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as the earliest translations of Freud. Among them she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which was to publish the work of T. With her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group.

Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid. Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. On 28 March 1941, a few months before the publication of her final novel, Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf committed suicide. She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography. Between 19 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to The Waves (1931). Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922). In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. This informal collective of artists and writers exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. After her father's death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of ‘The Bloomsbury Group’. Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882.

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