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Although married to Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf's strongest emotional ties had always been with women. Her lovers included Madge Vaughn (the daughter of J. A. Symonds, and inspiration for the character of Mrs. Dalloway), Violet Dickinson, as well as composer and female activist Ethel Smyth. In 1922, Woolf met and fell in love with Vita Sackville-West. After a tentative start, they began an affair that lasted through most of the 1920s.[1]
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Virginia Woolf was a British author, a distinguished feminist essayist, and a critic in The Times Literary Supplement. Woolf's books were published by Hogart Press, which she founded with her husband, the critic and writer Leonard Woolf.
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Virginia Woolf died on March 28, 1941 near Rodmell, Sussex, England. She left a note for her husband, Leonard, and for her sister, Vanessa. Then, Virginia walked to the River Ouse, put a large stone in her pocket, and drowned herself. Children found her body 18 days later.
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Virginia Woolf died on 28 March 1941 when she drowned herself in the River Ouse near their home in Sussex, by putting rocks in her coat pockets. Her body was found later in April and she was then cremated, her ashes spread under two elms at Monks’ House. She had left two similar suicide notes, one possibly written a few days earlier before an unsuccessful attempt. The one addressed to Leonard read in part;
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Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London, Woolf was the daughter of biographer and critic Leslie Stephen (later Sir Leslie) and Julia Jackson Duckworth. She was educated at home by her father. After his death in 1904, she, her sister Vanessa, and her brothers Adrian and Thoby moved to Bloomsbury, then a bohemian section of London. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a critic and writer on economics and politics. Virginia Woolf, her husband, her siblings, and their friends became known as the Bloomsbury Group. Meeting frequently until about 1930, the group included novelist E. M. Forster, biographer and essayist Lytton Strachey, painter Duncan Grant, art critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell (Vanessa's husband), economist John Maynard Keynes, and editor Desmond McCarthy.
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Virginia's mental instability continued after her marriage to Leonard Woolf in 1912. She attempted suicide in 1913, and suffered another breakdown in 1915, the same year her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published. However, Virginia succeeded in leading an extremely productive and vibrant existence in spite of her mental illness, and focused her creative energies in extraordinary ways. In addition to writing, she and her husband operated Hogarth Press in Surrey. In addition to their own writings, they published the work of esteemed authors such as T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and English translations of Sigmund Freud.
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