Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882.  Her mother died 13 years later and Virginia had a breakdown.  Then her father died in 1904.  Lytton Strachey, a homosexual, proposes to Virginia, but she says no.  In 1912, Virginia marries Leonard Woolf and attempts suicide the following year.  Nine years later she falls ill, but recovers.  In 1926 she comes down with the German measles.  Her last novel Virginia Woolf completes in 1941 and then drowns herself (Richter).



 

 

 

 

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