Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Stephen, later known as Virginia Woolf, was born in 1882. She was an English novelist and essayist who is now regarded as one of the most important modernist writers of the 20th century. Despite the fact that she wed the author Leonard Woolf in 1912, several biographers have come to the conclusion that Woolf was sexually attracted to women. Virginia Woolf had an affair with English author Vita Sackville-West in 1922 that lasted for the most of the 1920s. "Much preferring my own sex, as I do", Woolf said in a letter to a friend around that time.

Orlando, a fantasy biography in which the titular hero's life spans three centuries and both genders, was the gift that Woolf gave Sackville-West in 1928. In the 1970s, Orlando came out of the closet as a lesbian book, and it is still out now as reviewers continue to identify and laud its lesbian methods. Many years before society would come to accept same-sex relationships and almost a century before the law would, it makes fun of "compulsory heterosexuality" and fights bigotry.

Woolf struggled with mental illness her entire life. She made at least two suicide attempts while being institutionalized many times. According to Dalsimer (2004), she suffered from symptoms that today would be classified as bipolar disorder, but there was no effective treatment available to her while she was alive. Near the age of 59, Woolf committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Ouse at Lewes in 1941.

Detailed information:

Full name: Adeline Virginia Stephen

Date of birth: 25 January 1882

Date of death: 28 March 1941

Known for:

• Mrs Dalloway (1925)
• To the Lighthouse (1927)
• Orlando (1928)
• A Room of One's Own (1929)
• The Waves (1931)