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Childhood & Early Life
Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on 25 January 1882, in South Kensington, London, England. Her parents, Sir Leslie Stephen, an editor and a critic, and Julia Prinsep Stephen, a photographer, were freethinking people. They educated her in their own literate and well-connected house. Since both her parents

had been previously married, she grew up with several half-siblings.

Because her father was an editor, she grew up in an environment that had the influence of the Victorian literary society. There was a library in their house, from which the children were taught classics and English literature. Her brothers were educated at Cambridge and they often brought home literary works from Cambridge, which helped boost her intellect.
Her family made annual summer migrations from their London townhouse to the Talland House, situated on the rugged Cornwall coast. This annual relocation gave her an opportunity to experience the dualities, such as winter and summer, repression and freedom, city and country, etc.
Her mother passed away in 1895, and her sister passed away two years later, leaving Woolf in a state of shock. She lost her father in 1904, which had a severe impact on her mental stability. It was revealed later, that she suffered sexual abuse at the hands of her half-brothers, further adding to her trauma.
Career
Virginia Woolf began writing professionally in 1900. The first of her writings, which was a journalistic account of a visit to the Bronte family, was published anonymously in a journal in December 1904. She started writing for ‘The Times Literary Supplement’ the following year.
In 1915, she published her first novel ‘The Voyage Out,’ which was originally titled ‘Melymbrosia.’ The book was mostly about the experiences encountered in her life. She continued writings novels, self-publishing most of them, and gradually became a popular figure in the Victorian literary society.
In 1928, Virginia Woolf started taking grassroots approach to advocate feminism. She started addressing undergraduate women in various colleges. ‘A Room of

One’s Own’ (1929) and ‘Three Guineas’ (1938) were two of her non-fiction works that discuss the hardships faced by women writers and intellectuals. Also, she wanted to make people realize the effects of industrialization as well as create awareness about birth control.

It was during the bombing of London in 1940 and 1941 that she worked on ‘Between the Acts’ which portrayed war as a threat to art and humanity. Though she raised several questions in this work, she later felt that her work was of little significance as England seemed to be on the verge of invasion. It was such horrors that made it difficult for her to write. She was also plagued by mental illnesses, leading to her suicide in 1941. Her work was published later that year after her death.
With the end of the ‘Second World War,’ her posthumous popularity suffered. However, her works gained popularity again in the 1970s with the advent of feminist criticism. Despite her fame, she earned criticism for being anti-Semitic and for her snobbery—attributes that she claimed to own in her personal diary.