Virginia Woolf was the daughter of a Victorian critic, philosopher, biographer, and scholar Leslie Stephen. She was brought up in a large family where she could read in her father’s impressive library and get in touch
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Virginia Woolf was the daughter of a Victorian
critic, philosopher, biographer, and scholar Leslie Stephen. She was
brought up in a large family where she could read in her father’s impressive library and get in touch with many well-known Victorians.
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After the death of their father and Virginia's
second nervous breakdown, Vanessa and Adrian sold 22 Hyde
Park Gate and bought a house at 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury.
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Virginia Stephen married writer Leonard Woolf on 10
August 1912. Despite his low material status the couple
shared a close bond. Indeed, in 1937, Woolf wrote in her diary: "Love-making—after 25 years can't bear to be separate ... you see it is enormous pleasure being wanted: a wife. And our marriage so complete."
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Together they established the Hogarth Press in 1917
that published, among others, Eliot's POEMS(1919) and HOMAGE TO
JOHN DRYDEN(1924) the English translations of Freud, and Woolf's own writings.