Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882 in London. Her father was a prominent intellectual, and the Stephen family was socially well connected to many literary, artistic, and intellectual figures. So Virginia and her siblings were exposed to a range of creative and philosophical ways of thinking. Still, in keeping with Victorian convention, she and her sister were not given the same access to education as her brothers.
Virginia suffered many losses early in life, including the deaths of her mother in 1895, half sister in 1897, father in 1904–after which Virginia had a nervous breakdown–, and brother in 1906. She then suffered the figurative loss of her sister Vanessa...
