Death of Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf died on 28 March 1941 in Lewes, aged 59. An English writer born in London, Woolf was a central figure of literary modernism and of the Bloomsbury Group. In novels such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves she developed a flowing, interior style that followed the shifting thoughts and impressions of her characters, and in Orlando she played with time and gender. Her essay A Room of One's Own argued that a woman needs money and a space of her own in order to write. With her husband Leonard she founded the Hogarth Press, which published her own books and those of other leading authors. She suffered from periods of severe depression and took her own life in 1941.

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