The Waves (Hardback)

About The Author: Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882 she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother in 1895 and her stepsister Stella in 1897 leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favorite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid. With her sister the painter Vanessa Bell she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf whom she married in 1912 and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917 which was to publish the work of T. S. Eliot E. M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as the earliest translations of Freud. Woolf lived an energetic life among friends and family reviewing and... Name: Virginia Woolf Also Known As: Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf (full name) Date of Birth: January 25 1882 Place of Birth: London Date of Death: March 28 1941 Place of Death: Sussex England Education: Home schooling Biography Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882 she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother in 1895 and her stepsister Stella in 1897 leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favorite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid. With her sister the painter Vanessa Bell she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf whom she m