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Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (born Stephen; January 25，1882 – March 28，1941) was an English novelist, essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One’s Own (1929). Biography Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. Her parents had each been married previously . and She was educated by her parents in the household. The sudden death of her mother in 1895, and that of her half-sister Stella two years later, led to the first of Virginias several nervous breakdowns. Her breakdowns and subsequent recurring depressive periods, were also influenced by the sexual abuse she and Vanessa were subjected to by their half-brothers. The death of her father in 1904 provoked（惹起） her most alarming collapse（崩溃） and she was briefly institutionalized. After that, Virginia and Vanessa moved to Bloomsbury. With her friends, she formed the nucleus (核心)of the intellectual （知识分子）circle known as the Bloomsbury Group. Virginia Stephen married Leonard Woolf in 1912. In 1922, Virginia met the writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West. After a tentative（尝试性的） start, they began a sexual relationship that lasted through most of the 1920s. Suicide After completing the manuscript (手稿)of her last (posthumously 在死后published) novel, Between the Acts, Woolf fell victim to a depression similar to that which she had earlier experienced. On March 28，1941, Woolf committed suicide. She put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, then walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself. Woolf ’s skeletonised(成骨架的) body was not found until April 18. Her husband buried her cremated（被火葬的） remains under a tree in the garden of Monk’s house, their home in Rodmell, Sussex. River Ouse Work Mrs. Dalloway (1925) centres on the efforts of Clarissa Dalloway, a middle-aged society woman,