Virginia and Vanessa
(1879-1961, the eldest of Leslie and Julia Stephen's children), were close to one another throughout their lives. In A Sketch of the Past, VW
recalls that after the death of their...
Family and Intimate relationships
Virginia Woolf
Virginia and Vanessa had deep affection for their half-sister Stella
(1869-97), who seems not to have shared her brothers' fixation on society and who was closely attached to her mother. After Julia's death, Stella, then...
Health
Virginia Woolf
The recently married Stella Duckworth
, VW
's half-sister, died at the age of twenty-eight.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989.
