Woolf, Adeline Virginia, 1882-1941 (novelist)
Dates
- Existence: 1882 - 1941
Biography
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born at Kensington on 25 January 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen. She was a key figure in the Bloomsbury circle, and married one of its number, Leonard Sidney Woolf (1880-1969), in 1912. She wrote novels, including Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the lighthouse (1927), and critical essays. She drowned herself on 28 March 1941, following a nervous collapse.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
For Intellectual Liberty: Correspondence and papers
Virginia Woolf: On Being Ill
'On being ill', a holograph manuscript of 24 October 1925. There are accompanying letters by Virginia and Leonard Woolf and V. Sackville-West, 1936-1966, and an extract from a sale catalogue of 25 July 1978, concerning letters of Virginia Woolf.
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