Virginia Woolf Biography: Virginia Woolf is a British author and novelist who was born on January 25, 1882, in South Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom. Woolf wrote modernist classics as well as pioneered feminist texts. She was not only known as a pioneer of modernism but also as the greatest modernist literary personality of the twentieth century. Virginia’s parents and half-brothers educated her in their house as they were well literate and her brothers were educated from Cambridge.
Woolf is famous for her works like ‘To the Lighthouse’, ‘Mrs. Dalloway’, ‘Orlando’, and an essay titled ‘A Room of One’s Own’, which she self-published through her co-founded ‘Hogarth Press’. Virginia was an influential individual in the Bloomsbury group of intellectuals, using experimental language made her an innovator of English literature. Suffering from mental illness due to losing her parents and sexual abuse by her half-brothers, which added to the trauma, Woolf committed suicide in 1941.