Adeline Virginia Woolf was born in Kensington, London, on 22th January (1882).
She eaa an englisn writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
Woolf was an important figure in London literary society, and she was one of the members of Bloonsbury Group.
In her novels, she perfected the interior monologue with which she tried to represent the thoughts of a character, as they appear in her mind.
Woolf was also a pioneer in the reflection on the conditiin of women, the feminine identity and the relarions of women with art and literature, which is developed in some her essays; like "an own room" (1932) or "Orlando" (1928) in this, she blurs the differences between the masculine and the feminine condition personified in the protagonist, an aristocrat provided with the faculty to tranform himself in to a woman.
Her first novel "End of trip" was published in 1915 like in "Night and day" the writer already proved to be ready to break the narrative schemes, but they didn't have consideration on the part of the critique.
Only after the publication of "Lady Dalloway" and "To the lighthouse", the critics began to praise her literary originality. Critics also began to attract their attention to the technical mastery and the experimental zeal of the author, who introduced in the prose novel a style and a few images which till then, had been mainly used in poetry.
After completing her last manuscript (novel), Virginia Woolf fell into a depression similar to that which she had earlier experienced. World War II, that destructed her London home and the cool reception given to her biograhy of her late friend Roger Fry all worsened her condition until she was uneable to work.
On 28 March 1941, Woolf drowned herself by filling her overcoast pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse Woo.
Woolf's body wasn't found until 18 April 1941.
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