Virginia Adeline Stephen

Virginia Adeline Stephen was born into aristocracy in London in 1882. Despite the fact that she was born into this luxury, she was dissatisfied with her life in a patriarchal culture. Her father was a well-known character in town, so she was expected to marry well and be a decent wife. Leslie Stephen, the inventor of the Oxford Dictionary of Biography, and his second wife, Julia Duckworth, were her parents. Woolf's father, who was well-known for his literary skills, allowed her free reign of the family library when she was a youngster. She entered her first competition when she was just eight years old. Even though it did not win, it predicted her first novel, which was published 25 years later.

Woolf was transferred to women finishing school in Germany when she was thirteen years old. When she returned to England at the age of seventeen, she began writing stories and her first novel. Her articles delved into the stream of consciousness approach as well as women's concerns.

Woolf was a major role in feminist philosophy as well as one of the leading modernist literary personalities of the twentieth century. "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925) and "To the Lighthouse" (1926) are two of her most well-known works (1927). She is an author who is highly renowned for her experimental work yet is underappreciated. She published three novels before "Mrs. Dalloway": "The Voyage Out" (1915), "Night and Day" (1919), and "Jacob's Room" (1920). (1922). Woolf began writing professionally in her thirties, augmenting her income with portrait assignments and teaching roles. She authored the controversial novel "The Voyage Out" in 1912, which depicted the mental unraveling of a young woman suffering from despair. Many of her writings have been adapted for the big screen, as well as an opera.