Summary Of Virginia Woolf

The author I have chosen is Virginia Woolf because I found her a very interesting woman. She is an English author who wrote modernist classics and in 1915 she published her first novel called The Voyage Out. She did not attend to the school, instead, she was taught at home; the first thing she started to write was a family newspaper called the Hyde Park Gate News, in which she recorded all the funny moments her family spent.

With the death of her mother, she went to King’s College in London where she studied in German, Greek and Latin at the Ladies’ Department. It was there where she became a radical feminist in terms of educational reforms. In addition to the death of her mother, her father also died, and as a result she was in a deep depression, which was the cause of her suicide in 1941.

Virginia Woolf got married to Leonard Woolf, and she went to the River Ouse’s banks in North Yorkshire, where she wrote a series of letters to him before she died. Those letters are a clear proof that she suffered a deep depression, and that she could not go on with her life: “I don’t think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can’t fight any longer”. [ Feigel, Lara. “A mind in flight; Virginia Woolf’s novels capture what it feels like to be alive - it took nerve to write like this”. The Ottawa Citizen, April 9, 2016]

This quote proves that, in part, she had a happy life, but then, she sickened a terrible mental illness. Some critics, as Lara Feigel