Full Name: Adeline Virginia Woolf
Profession: Author and Novelist
Biography: A significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.
Woolf was one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
Born: January 25, 1882
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom
Star Sign: Aquarius
Married Life
- 1912-08-10 British "To the Lighthouse" author Virginia Woolf [nee Stephen] (30) weds political theorist Leonard Woolf (31) at the St Pancras (London) Register Office, until her deathsuicide in 1941
Historical Events
- 1925-05-14 Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs Dalloway" is published by The Hogarth Press
- 1966-06-21 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", film directorial debut of Mike Nichols, based on Edward Albee's 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress, 1967)