Adeline Virginia Stephen (1882-1941) was thirteen when her beloved mother died. Her father, brother and stepsister died within ten years, which left her feeling like a 'broken chrysalis'. She began to experience mental breakdowns and thoughts of suicide, which haunted her throughout her life. In 1904, she moved with her sister Vanessa to the bohemian district of Bloomsbury in London, where she became involved with a group of artists and writers now known as the Bloomsbury Group, including Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912. The Woolfs founded the Hogarth Press together and published works by T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as Woolf's own experimental novels, which are now considered among the supreme achievements of modernism in fiction.
Adeline Virginia Stephen (1882-1941) was thirteen when her beloved mother died. Her father, brother and stepsister died within ten years, which left her feeling like a 'broken chrysalis'. She began to experience mental breakdowns and thoughts of suicide, which haunted her throughout her life. In ...