Virginia Woolf changed the novelistic landscape from a chronology to a psychological interconnection.
She was born in the [end of] Victorian Era in 1882.
Leslie Stephen was her father while Julia Jackson was her mother.
Her father was a literary person and he was a fast friend of Thomas Hardy.
Woolf was physically and mentally weak and when her family died when she was just thirteen, she began to suffer mental breakdowns.
As her final mental breakdown went so severe that she proclaimed that she would not recover from it and committed suicide in 1941.
She formed her own group known as Bloomsbury Group of Cambridge graduates.
She was married to Leonard Woolf in 1912. He was an aspirant in the Civil Services Academy but he was a simply educated person who helped Virginia write her novelistic genius.
They found their own publishing house named The Hogarth Press by Leonard in 1917. The main goal of this publishing house was to publish Virginia's novels and the novels of those who were young artists. Her first novels were also rejected by the publishers so her husband founded one for his wife and the young novelists who strived for a recognization of their works.
Prominent Features of Virginia's Novels
Most of her novels take place in the city of London.
She depicts the complex mental battles of the city people.
Her philosophy is hard to understand by a common rustic people. However, the city people can easily get a hold of her philosophy.
Most of her knowledge was derived from books, not from the contacts of people.
It was only two years of her happy married life and the First World War broke out. It destroyed her mental peace and routine of London. The war shattered all the good values and brought about devastation of ideas.
Her last novel The Years was published in 1937 and it proved a fatal failure. Some researchers argue that this might be the cause behind her final mental breakdown. Some suggest more reasons. But her last letter to her husband suggests that the reason behind her suicide was the acute relapse from "which she could not recover anymore".
Source
Lecture of Sir Faisal
