Virginia

 Adeline Virginia Woolf (/wUlf/; nee Stephen 25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English writer who was considered to be to be one of the greatest writers of the 20th century modernist era and a pioneer in the use of streams of consciousness as a narrative device.Woolf was born into a wealthy family in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in the blended family of eight that included the painter modernist Vanessa Bell. She was educated at home in English classics as well as Victorian literature since a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she was a student at the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where she studied classics and history and was introduced to early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement.Encouraged by her father, Woolf began writing professionally in the year 1900. Following her father's passing in 1904, the Stephen family relocated from Kensington to the more bohemian Bloomsbury, where, in along with their intellectual friends, they formed the literary and artistic Bloomsbury Group. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917, the couple established the Hogarth Press, which published the majority of her writing.