Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (1882-1941), Novelist and critic; sister of Vanessa Bell
Sitter in 62 portraits
Novelist, essayist, biographer and critic. The third child of Leslie and Julia Stephen, and sister of Vanessa (later Bell) she was a central figure in Bloomsbury. With Vanessa, in 1905 she acted as hostess for the Thursday evening gatherings held at 46 Gordon Square that formed the nucleus of Old Bloomsbury. Despite intermittent bouts of mental illness her many novels, notably Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931), transformed ideas about structure, plot and characterisation, and are an important literary legacy. She committed suicide in 1941.
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, circa 1917
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Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Lord David Cecil
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Philip Charles Thomson Ritchie; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Julian Ottoline Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Jerome Klapka Jerome
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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T.S. Eliot; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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T.S. Eliot; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Robert Bridges
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 26 June 1926
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Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Robert Bridges
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 26 June 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Related People
Julian Heward Bell (nephew)
Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell (nephew)
Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) (sister)
(Karin) Judith Henderson (née Stephen) (niece)
Adrian Stephen (brother)
Sir James Stephen (grandfather)
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Mrs Duckworth) (mother)
Sir Leslie Stephen (father)
Thoby Stephen (brother)
Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen) (niece)
Leonard Sidney Woolf (husband)
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Charleston, Lewes, East Sussex
Monk's House, Lewes, East Sussex
Virginia Woolf Society
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