Wolf’s childhood came to an abrupt end in 1895 with the death of his mother and his first mental breakdown, followed by the death of her stepsister and surrogate mother Stella Duckworth two years later. 

From 1897–1901 she attended the women’s department of Women’s College London, where she studied classics and history and came into contact with the early reformers of women’s higher education and the women’s rights movement. 

Her significant influences were his Cambridge-educated brothers and their father’s unfettered access to the vast library.

She began writing professionally in 1900, encouraged by her father, whose death in 1905 was a major turning point in her life and the cause of another breakdown. 

After death, the family moved from Kensington to the greater Bohemian Bloomsbury, where they adopted an independent-spirited lifestyle; It was there that, together with her brothers’ intellectual friends, she formed the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group.

In 1912 Woolf married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917 she founded Hogarth Press, which published most of her work. The couple rented a second home in Sussex and moved there permanently in 1940. 

Throughout life, Woolf was troubled by a rash of mental illness, including institutionalization and attempts to commit suicide. Her disease is considered bipolar disorder, for which there was no effective intervention at that time. 

She finally committed suicide in 1941 at the age of 59 by putting rocks in his pockets and drowning in the river.

Virginia Stephen was born in London on 25 January 1882. She was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, a noted scholar and philosopher and seeker of knowledge, who was one of many literary professions, once editor of the Cornhill Magazine and Dictionary of National Biography. 

James Russell Lowell, the American poet, was his godfather. Her mother, Julia Jackson, died when she was twelve or thirteen years old. 

Virginia and her sister were educated at home in their father’s library, where Virginia also met her famous friends including G. E. Moore (1873–1958) and E. M. Forster (1879–1970). Young Virginia soon started falling deep into the world of literature.

In 1912, eight years after her father’s death, Virginia got married with Leonard Woolf, a brilliant young writer and critic of Cambridge in England, whose interests in literature as well as economics and the labour movement suited her. In 1917, for entertainment, she founded Hogarth Press, an old press setting on two stories and hand printing by “L. and V. Woolf”.

The volume was a success, and over the years he published several important books including Prelude by Catherine Mansfield (1888–1923), then an unknown author; Poems by T. S. Eliot (1888–1965); And Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf.

Hogarth Press’s policy was to publish the best and most original work that came to its attention, and publishers as Woolfs favoured young and unknown authors. 

Virginia’s older sister Vanessa, who married critic Clive Bell, participated in the venture by designing dust jackets for books released by Hogarth Press.