London’s famous novelist, feminist, essayist
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Adeline Virginia Stephen, popularly known as Virginia Woolf was born in London to Sir Leslie Stephen (considered the father of the Bloomsbury Group) and Julia Princep Stephen. Virginia Woolf was educated by her parents in their well connected household at Kensington, London. Her connection with Cornwall was in the first 12 years of her life, as the family had holidays every year in St Ives.
St. Ives played a large part in Virginia's imagination because it provided settings for literary works such as Jacob's Room, The Waves, and Godrevy Lighthouse.
During the interwar period (also called the period between the wars or interbellum), Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and became a member of the Bloomsbury, a group initially consisted of the novelists, essayists, critics of literature, art, and politics.
Her Literary Works:
Novels
• The Voyage Out (1915)
• Night and Day (1919)
• Jacob's Room (1922)
• Mrs Dalloway (1925)
• To the Lighthouse (1927)
• Orlando (1928)
• The Waves (1931)
• The Years (1937)
• Between the Acts (1941)
Short story collections
• Monday or Tuesday (1921)
• A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1943)
• The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)
Source: Wikipedia.org