Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s Background

 Born on January 25,
1882 in London
England
 Leslie Stephen and Julia
Stephen were her
parents
 She was homeschooled
 Her dad had a library
 1 sister, 2 brothers
Childhood Problems

 Had several panic attacks since the age of 6

 Her step brothers sexually abused her and her
sister till their teen years
 When she was 12 she jumped out of a
window and because of a nervous breakdown
 Mom died suddenly because of heart failure
when she was 13
 8 years later her dad died of old age
How she wrote her books
 personal life
 traveled all around the
world to get
inspirations
 Using current events to
make short stories
Her Diary….

 Her Diary had some disturbing things about

her inside
 She married a Jewish man but claimed she
hated the Jewish laugh and smile
 The diary also showed she was a fan of same
sex relationships
 She wrote inappropriate remarks about
people who she did not like and or criticized
her writings
Works……..
 The Voyage Out (1915)
 Night and Day (1919)
 Jacob's Room (1920)
 Monday or Tuesday (1921)
 Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
 The Common Reader, First Series (1925)
 To the Lighthouse (1927)
 Orlando (1928)
 House and Other Short Stories (1944)
Works……..
 A Room of One's Own (1929)
 The Waves (1931)
 Flush: A Biography (1933)
 The Common Reader, Second Series (1925)
 The Years (1937)
 Three Guineas (1938)
 Between the Acts (1941)
 The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
(1942)
 A Haunted and Other Short Stories (1944)
Oh Boy 
 Death  March 28, 1941 at the age of 59
 Drowned herself by putting rocks in her pockets
and walking into the River near her house
 Couldn’t handle one more panic attack in her life