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