What is Virginia Woolf?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Virginia Woolf | image =Woolf by Beresford 2.jpg | birth_name = Adeline Virginia Stephen | caption= Portrait of Virginia Woolf by [[George Charles Beresford]] | alt=Photograph of Virginia Woolf in 1902; photograph by [[George Charles Beresford]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1882|1|25|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Kensington]], [[Middlesex]], England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|3|28|1882|1|25|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Lewes]], [[Sussex]], England | spouse = {{marriage|[[Leonard Woolf]]|1912}}<!-- Years of marriage, not life of LW --> | relatives = {{plain list| * [[Leslie Stephen|Sir Leslie Stephen]] (father) * [[Julia Stephen|Julia Duckworth Stephen]] (mother) }} | alma_mater = [[King's College London]] | nationality = [[British people|British]] | notableworks = ''[[Mrs Dalloway]]'', ''[[To the Lighthouse]]'', ''[[The Waves]]'' | occupation = [[Novelist]], [[essayist]], publisher, critic |signature = Virginia Woolf signature.svg }} '''Adeline Virginia Woolf''' ({{IPAc-en|w|ʊ|l|f}};{{sfn|Collins|2018}} {{née|'''Stephen'''}}; 25 January 1882{{snd}} 28 March 1941) was an [[English people|English]] [[Modernist literature|modernist]] writer, essayist and [[feminist]].<ref>Nicolson, Nigel 2000. ''Virginia Woolf''. Penguin.</ref><ref>Bell, Quentin 1972. ''Virginia Woolf: a biography''. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Revised editions 1990, 1996</ref> == Childhood == She was born into a well-known family. Her father, Leslie Stephen, was a Victorian scholar. Her mother, born in [[India]], was a favourite model of the [[Preraphaelite]] artists. Her sister, Vanessa Bell, was a painter. She had two brothers; one of them, Thoby, died in 1906. Her mother died when she was thirteen and four years later her half-sister Stella died. In these times Virginia started to have her psychological, or mental problems. She had [[bipolar disorder]] in the time when few people knew this [[mental illness|illness]] and most thought she