Two of Woolf’s brothers had been educated at Cambridge, but all the girls were taught at home and utilized the splendid confines of the family’s lush Victorian library. She was also a nurse and wrote a book on the profession. Both of her parents had been married and widowed before marrying each other. Woolf had three full siblings - Thoby, Vanessa and Adrian - and four half-siblings - Laura Makepeace Stephen and George, Gerald and Stella Duckworth. The eight children lived under one roof at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington. Woolf’s mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson), had been born in India and later served as a model for several Pre-Raphaelite painters. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a historian and author, as well as one of the most prominent figures in the golden age of mountaineering. Early Lifeīorn on January 25, 1882, Adeline Virginia Stephen was raised in a remarkable household. She committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59. In her personal life, she suffered bouts of deep depression. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, as well as pioneering feminist works, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas. She wrote modernist classics including Mrs. She began writing as a young girl and published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. Born into a privileged English household in 1882, author Virginia Woolf was raised by free-thinking parents.
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