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Born/Died Dates
She was born at 22 Hyde Park Gate in South Kensington, London.
She died on 28th March 1941. She drowned herself by filling her overcoat with stones and walking into the river near home. -
Mental Health
From the age of 13, following the death of her mother, Woolf suffered periodic mood swings from severe depression to manic excitement, including psychotic episodes, which the family referred to as her "madness". -
Woolf began writing professionally
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Father's Death
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Marriage
She married Leonard Woolf. He was one of Thoby Stephen's friends at Trinity College, Cambridge, and noticed the Stephen sisters in Thoby's rooms there on their visits to the May Ball in 1900 and 1901. -
First Novel
The Voyage Out -
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Best-known works
- Mrs Dalloway (1925)
- To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Orlando (1928)
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Best-known nonfiction works
- A room of One's Own (1929)
- Three Guineas (1938)