VIRGINIA WOOLF.

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VIRGINIA WOOLF

A Room of
One’s Own
(1929)

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VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)

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VIRGINIA WOOLF

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Painting of Virginia Woolf by her

sister Vanessa Bell.
1891-1904

 Writes stories for The Hyde Park Gate News

 1895 Death of his mother—First serious
mental breakdown
 1897 Death of her half-sister Stella
 1904 Death of her father—Second mental
breakdown
 Virginia and her sisters and brothers move to
Bloomsbury
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Stephen by Duncan Grant
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Lytton Strachey; Saxon Sydney Turner; Leonard

Woolf by Henry Lamb
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Virginia Woolf and E.M.Forster

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1912

 1905 Begins contributing

to the Times Literary
Supplement.
 1906-1909 Deaths of his
brother Thoby and his
aunt Caroline E. Stephen
 Starts working on her first
novel The Voyage Out
 1912 Marries Leonard
Woolf http://smith.edu

Virginia and Leonard

Woolf's
Wedding Day, 10
August 1912
 MONK’S HOUSE
(EAST SUSSEX)

Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived

here together from 1919 until her
suicide in 1941; Leonard remained
in the home until his death in 1969
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Left, Virginia's writing lodge at the

rear of the Monk's House property

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MONK’S HOUSE (EAST SUSSEX)

Virginia Woolf's
writing lodge
 1936 Serious mental
breakdown

1941 COMMITS SUICIDE

Colour Print of Virginia Woolf taken by

Gisèle Freund (1939)

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VIRGINIA WOOLF’S WORKS
 The Voyage Out (1915)
 Night and Day (1919)
 Jacob’s Room (1922)
 Mrs Dalloway & The Common Reader: First Series (1925)
 To the Lighthouse (1927)
 Orlando (1928)
 A Room of One’s Own (1929)
 The Waves (1931)
 The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)
 Flush (1933)
 The Years (1937)
 Three Guineas (1938)
 Between the Acts (1941)
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