Virginia

 Adeline Virginia Woolf (/wUlf/, nee Stephen 25 January 1882-28 March 1941) was an English writer. She was the seventh daughter of Julia Prinsep Jackson, and Leslie Stephen, and was part of a blended family which also included modernist painter Vanessa Bell. From a young age she was educated in her the home of Victorian literature as well as English classics. Between 1897 and 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department at King's College London, where she was a student of classics and historical studies and came into contact with early reformers of women's high education as well as the women's rights movement.Encouraged by her father, Woolf began writing professionally in the year 1900. The Stephen family relocated to Bloomsbury in 1904 after her father died. In Bloomsbury, along with their intellectual companions they established the literary and artistic Bloomsbury Group. Leonard Woolf married her in 1912. In 1917, they established the Hogarth Press which published much of her writing.