Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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Birth | Virginia Woolf | Adeline Virginia Stephen, later VW
, was born at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London, the third of the four children of Sir Leslie Stephen
and Julia Prinsep Stephen
. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 104, 35 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Julia Stephen
, Leslie Stephen's wife and VW
's mother, died at the age of forty-nine from either influenza or rheumatic fever, a condition exacerbated by overwork. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989. 1 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 128 Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995. 267-8 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's mother, née Julia Prinsep Jackson
(1846-95), was born in India and brought to England as a toddler. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995. 267 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Leslie Stephen
's daughter from his previous marriage, Laura
(1868-1934), suffered from some form of mental disability and lived most of her life in institutions. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 74 |
Health | Virginia Woolf | VW
's varying reactions to her own illnesses included guilt about what she saw as her lack of mental and moral control over her body; deep anger toward her physicians and the larger operational codes... |
Instructor | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf was educated at home. As a very young girl, she was tutored by her mother
in Latin, French, and history. When she was between thirteen and fifteen, her father
gave her lessons for... |
Textual Features | Mary Augusta Ward | Her signatories—who mostly owed their eminence to their position as the the wives of prominent men—included Mrs Leslie Stephen
, Mrs Matthew Arnold
, Mrs Kegan Paul
(who was a novelist in her own right),... |
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