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Virginia Woolf Biography, Age, Career, Family, Facts

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.   

 Virginia Woolf Biography is filled with facts and life incidents. Let’s read below to know more about her.

NameVirginia Woolf
Nick NameVirginia
Birth PlaceSouth Kensington, London, England
Date Of Birth25th January 1882
Died at the age59 years
ReligionUnder Review
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor and Novelist

Virginia Woolf Career: 

Virginia Woolf started writing professionally in 1900. One of her first writings was a journalistic account of a visit to the Bronte family, which got published in a journal in December 1904. In the following year, Virginia began writing for ‘The Times Literary Supplement. Woolf published her first novel ‘The Voyage Out, which was originally titled ‘Melymbrosia’, in 1915, the novel was about her experiences, which she came across in her life.

Virginia started to promote feminism by writing about undergraduate women in various colleges as well as writing two non-fiction works ‘A Room of One’s Own’ in 1929 and ‘Three Guineas’ in 1938, which talked about the hardships faced by women writers and intellectuals. One of Woolf’s important works ‘To the Lighthouse’ was published in 1927 by ‘Hogarth Press’ with her husband, which was ranked 15th by the ‘Modern Library’ in 1998, on its list of ‘100 best English language novels of the 20th century’, it was also chosen by the ‘TIME’ magazine as one of the best English language novels published between 1923 and 2005. One of Virginia’s most experimental novels was ‘The Waves’ which was published in 1931. Woolf published ‘Flush: A Biography’ in 1933 by Hogarth Press, which viewed city life through the eyes of a dog.

Virginia Woolf Family: 

Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882, in South Kensington, London, England, to an editor and a critic, Sir Leslie Stephen, and photographer Julia Prinsep Stephen. She was brought up with half-siblings Adrian Stephen, Thoby Stephen, and Vanessa Bell. There is no more information about her.

Virginia Woolf Boyfriend and Spouse :

Virginia Woolf tied the knot with husband writer Leonard Woolf in 1912. They had a happy married life until her death in 1941 due to suicide. As Woolf was bisexual, she met a writer and gardener named Vita Sackville in 1922 and had a sexual relationship.

Virginia Woolf Facts/Trivia:

  • She is is a married woman.
  • Virginia Woolf shares very good pictures on Instagram.
  • She enjoys riding and playing music and guitar in her free time.
  • Virginia’s eye color is Black.
  • Her favorite color is Yellow and Grey.
  • Virginia is a very happily married woman and shares happy pictures with her husband.

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Virginia Woolf Net Worth:

Virginia Woolf’s has good NetWorth.

Net Worth$ Million Dollars
SalaryUnder Review
Income SourceHollywood and Instagram.
CarsUnknown
BikesUnder Review

Virginia Woolf Social Media :

Virginia Woolf is not so active on her Instagram and Twitter Handles. 

Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/virginiawoolf_/
YouTubeUnder Review
Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/VirginiaWoolfAuthor

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