Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia
Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ( 1882 – 1941 ),daughter of Leslie Stephen and Julia Duckworth ( 1847 – 95 ), born at Hyde Park Gate, where she lived with her sister Vanessa (later Vanessa Bell ) and her brothers until her father's death in 1904 . The Stephen children then moved to Bloomsbury, where they formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group . In 1905 she began to write for the Times Literary Supplement , a connection which lasted almost until her death. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf ; she was already working on her first novel, The Voyage Out, published in 1915 . Realistic in form but already foreshadowing the lyric intensity of her later work, it describes the voyage to South America of a young Englishwoman, Rachel Vinrace; her engagement there to Terence Hewet; and her subsequent fever and rapid death. Virginia herself had meanwhile experienced one of the bouts of acute...
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