Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, born on 25 January 1882, was one of the most inventive authors of the twentieth
century. Though Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) are perhaps her best-known
works, she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, correspondence and biographies. Woolf ’s
writing depicts the rapidly evolving world in which she was living in both style and subject matter.
She struggled with mental illness throughout her life and attempted suicide twice before drowning
herself in River Ouse on 28 March 1941.