1. Born January 25, 1882.

2. Virginia inherited her father’s passion for books and her beauty from her mother.

3. When she and her sis Vanessa were young they were strikingly good-looking being classic Greek.

4. After they were grown Henry James was shocked by their unladylike behavior. Both girls had a certain demure shyness but underneath they were like their father, out-spoken and satirical.

5. Virginia was frail and educated herself with father’s library.

6. Virginia attempted suicide, she overdosed on veronal tablets. 4 trained nurses were required during recovery Leonard was the only thing that saved her from being committed.

7. After both her parents died she moved out of her family home. Eventually she took a lease on a large four-storied house in Brunswick Square and rented to top floor to Leonard Woolf. She occupied to third floor; her brother Adrian lived on the second; and Maynard Keynes and Duncan Grant occupied the bottom apartment. This was a very daring arrangement for most young woman at this time.

8. Later on she married Leonard Woolf.

9. She had a history of mental instability. In childhood she suffered a breakdown as well as another after her mothers death.

10.  In 1913 while she was finishing The Voyage Out Leonard noticed that she was becoming irritable and nervous, he didn’t know that she had a history of mental problems.

11. Was an essayist, novelist, critic, short story writer, diarist, and biographer.

12. She and her husband founded the Hogarth Press.

13. Her husband was a political journalist and novelist.