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 George Charles Beresford
platinum print, July 1902
NPG P220
by George Charles Beresford
platinum print, July 1902
NPG P221
by George Charles Beresford
platinum print, July 1902
NPG P222
by George Charles Beresford
platinum print, July 1902
NPG P223
by Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd)
matte bromide print, 7 February 1910
NPG P1293
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
oil on board, 1912
NPG 5933
by Stephen Tomlin
lead bust, 1931
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3882
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell)
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(21)
Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell); Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(22)
by Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
silver print, 27 November 1934
NPG P170
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Leonard Sidney Woolf
by Gisèle Freund
colour print, 1939
NPG P439
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Sir Leslie Stephen
by George Charles Beresford
sepia-toned platinotype, 1902
NPG x4600
by George Charles Beresford
platinum print, retouched and heightened, July 1902
NPG x27535
Unknown man; Lady Ottoline Morrell; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1910
NPG Ax140271
Noel Olivier; Maitland Radford; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Rupert Brooke
by Unknown photographer
vintage print, possibly carbon on brown card mount, 1911
NPG x13124
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, circa 1917
NPG Ax141319
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, circa 1917
NPG Ax141320
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, circa 1917
NPG Ax141321
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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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