Virginia Woolf: An Introduction

The Stephen Family

22 Hyde Park Gate

(1882-1904)

Talland House, Godrvey Lighthouse, St. Ives,Cornwall

Deaths, Marriages, and

Breakdowns

1895 (13) death of Julia Stephen (Mother) possible suicide attempt; 1st breakdown

1897 (15) death of Stella Duckworth (older half-sister) 1904 (22) death of Leslie Stephen (father)

2nd serious breakdown; suicide attempt 1906 (24) Thoby (brother) dies typhoid on trip to Greece wi

sisters 1907 (25) Vanessa marries Clive Bell 1912 (30) Feb-- 2 wks in nursing home; May, LW proposes;

VO finished; marries Leonard Woolf, 10 August 1913 (31) V Out accepted for publication

delayed b/c breakdown & suicide attempt 1914 War declared Aug. 4 1915 (33) VO published; begins Diary; take Hogarth house &

buy press Feb & March, nursing home

Vanessa (1902) and Virginia (1907)

Bloomsbury: 46 Gordon Sq1904-07

London and Enviorns(Fitzroy Sq.)

Bloomsbury Connections

Cambridge Connections Adrian and Thoby

Stephen Lytton Strachey

Maynard Keynes Desmond (& Molly) McCarthy

Saxon Sydney-Turner Leonard Woolf E.M. Forster

Art Connections Roger Frye Clive Bell (Cambridge) Duncan Grant (Strachey)

Bloomsbury Portraits

Roger Fry and the First Post-Impressionist Exhibition 1910

Dreadnought Hoaxers in Abyssinian Dress (1910)

Bloomsbury Group

G. E. Moore (who taught several of the Bloomsbury men at Cambridge University)

"By far the most valuable things which we know or can imagine are certain states of consciousness, which may roughly be described as the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects."

Virginia & Leonardat Asheham (1912-19)m. 1915

Suffield and Hogarth House, Richmond1915-24

Homes in Sussex

Charleston, Vanessa’s Home in Sussex1916-78 (Duncan’s death)

Monk’s House 1919-1941/69

Monk’s House Interior

Vita Sackville-West (V&V meet 1925)

Woolf’s WritingStudio

Water Meadows,Rodmel

The River Ouse