Virginia Woolf Brisa Barragán and Rubén de Miguel Hi! I am Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, I was an English writer, who was born in the United Kingdom, London, on January 25th 1882 and died on March 28th 1941. I was a writer of novels, short stories and more literary works. Thanks to this, I was considered one of the most outstanding avant-garde Anglo-Saxon modernists of the twentieth century and international feminism. I was also the pioneer in reflection on the condition of women, women's identity and women's relationships with art and literature. About my personal life, my father was Sir Leslie Stephen, who was a distinguished critic and historian, I was also home-schooled in English classes and Victorian literature from 1897 to 1901. I studied in the Ladies´ Department of King's College, London, where I started studying Classic and History. I grew up surrounded by literates, artists and intellectuals. When my father passed away in 1905, I went to live with my sister when I was 23. In 1912 I met my future husband, Leonard Woolf, thanks to the founding of the publishing house "Hogarth Press" in 1917. First of all, because of the death of my parents, I suffered several attacks of depression and for this reason I became admitted in a psychiatric hospital. Having suffered sexual abuse with my sister Vanessa by my half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth, I suffered a state of bipolarity due to the sexual abuse that marked my life deeply. Because of my bipolar personality disorder, I was admitted to a nursing home, which today is more known as a psychiatric facility. Toward the early 1940s,I also suffered an outburst due to the second world war, it was horrible since they destroyed my house in London, apart, my last book did not have too much merit, i no longer wanted to work
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