Adeline Virginia Stephen was born in London on January 25th in 1882 and she spent her childhood in Kenisington neighborhood.

His mother, Julia Prinsep, was a model of artists and the first photographers; and his father, Leslie Stephen, was a distinguished critic and historian, which caused Virginia to grow up in an environment frequented by literary people, artists, philosophers, writers, and intellectuals.

She never had the opportunity to go to school, her parents were her teachers and friends of important writers (thanks to them she became interested in reading). Before she was 7 years old, she already knew French and Latin (in addition to English), and had learned about history.

She had three brothers on his mother's side and a sister on his father's side.

Since she was little, she has symptoms of her mental illness (bipolar disorder). The beginning of her depression happened with the death of her mother and one of her sisters, for which she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. After the death of his father, she suffered a nervous breakdown.

She and her brothers moved to Bloomsbury, and soon, their home became the meeting place of British intellectuals, who shared thoughts and ideals. At this time, Virginia was a figure of total importance for society; spokesperson for unique messages that she promoted.

Her tremendous ideals led to her being proposed on 3 occasions, in which she declined, before marrying Leonard Woolf in 1912. With him, they created the editorial Hogart press, which edited Works by her and important figures such as Sigmund Freud or Katherine Mansfield.

In the 1920s, she met the writer Vita Sackeville-West, with whom she had a love relationship (both married). It is believed that the work Orlando is a love statement written for her lover.

She killed herself on March 28th in 1921, because of her illness, jumping into the Orlando River with stones in her pockets.

Curiosities:

One summer, she had an episode where she thought that the birds were chirping in Greek and that King Edward VII was saying curses in a hedge.

Her husband was jewish, so she was one of the objectives of the "death list" of Hitler.

Along with some members of the Bloomsbury circle, they posed as members of the Asbian royal family to the Royal British Army and managed to board a battleship on a 40-minute trip.

Virginia was a novelist and literary critic, which led her to have a very own poetic style. From her first works One way trip and Night and day, she shows her readers her ability to destroy the narrative molds that had been seen until then in the English novel, being capable of creating an original narrative style through the analysis of thoughts and emotions.

When her work Mrs. Dalloway came to light, critics began to point out her works as original. In addition, her interior monologue technique is considered among the most important contributions to the renewal of the novel in the twentieth century and to the modern novel.

This technique consists of reproducing the thoughts of a character in the first person: [insert sample fragment]

Another of her most important works was To the Lighthouse, in which she used difficult-to-follow prose, skillful manipulation of time, and psychological exploration.Thanks to this, critics realized that Virginia used resources never seen before.

Additionally, it should be noted that Virginia Woolf is one of the most prominent figures of the feminist movement at the international level thanks to her acts and her works, full of freedom and magnificent prose. And it is that many of her writings were directed towards society, and especially to women, in a way of complaint about the situation in which she found herself due to her time. Although her works were promulgated from the 1920s, some publishers now make reissues of her novels.

She was a pioneer in reflecting on the condition of women and their relationships in art and literature. With works such as A room of her own, in which she says the well-known phrase "a woman needs a room of her own and money to write fiction", criticizing that women should have a private and social environment to develop their skills.

All the little red and yellow flowers had blossomed in the grass, like floating lamps, he said, and they talked and chatted and laughed, making up stories. Suddenly, he said: "And now, we will kill each other", when they were standing on the bank of the river, and he was looking at him with a look that he had already seen in his eyes when a train or a bus passed - as if something fascinated and noticed that he was leaving his side and had to grab him by the arm. But when he got home he was absolutely calm - absolutely reasonable. He was trying to convince her to commit suicide together; and explained to him how wicked people were; how he saw them invent lies as they passed through the street. He knew all his thoughts, he said; he knew everything. she knew the meaning of the world, he said. "

Todas las florecillas rojas y amarillas habían florecido entre la hierba, como lámparas flotantes, dijo él, y hablaron, charlaron y rieron, inventando historias. De repente, dijo: "Y ahora, nos mataremos", cuando estaban de pie a la orilla del río, y él lo miraba con una mirada que ya le había visto en sus ojos al pasar un tren o un ómnibus -como si algo le fascinara y notó que se iba de su lado y lo tuvo que agarrar por el brazo. Pero al volver a casa estuvo absolutamente tranquilo- absolutamente razonable. Intentaba convencerla de suicidarse juntos; y le explicaba lo perversa que era la gente; cómo los veía inventar mentiras a su paso por la calle. Conocía todos sus pensamientos, decía; lo sabía todo. Conocía el significado del mundo, decía."

Bibliography: www.resibooks.com/2019/03/fragmentos-la-senora-dalloway-ii.html