Virginia Woolf: An Introduction
Dec 16, 2015
Virginia Woolf: An Introduction
The Stephen Family
22 Hyde Park Gate
(1882-1904)
Talland House, Godrvey Lighthouse, St. Ives,Cornwall
Deaths, Marriages, and
Breakdowns
1895 (13) death of Julia Stephen (Mother) possible suicide attempt; 1st breakdown
1897 (15) death of Stella Duckworth (older half-sister) 1904 (22) death of Leslie Stephen (father)
2nd serious breakdown; suicide attempt 1906 (24) Thoby (brother) dies typhoid on trip to Greece wi
sisters 1907 (25) Vanessa marries Clive Bell 1912 (30) Feb-- 2 wks in nursing home; May, LW proposes;
VO finished; marries Leonard Woolf, 10 August 1913 (31) V Out accepted for publication
delayed b/c breakdown & suicide attempt 1914 War declared Aug. 4 1915 (33) VO published; begins Diary; take Hogarth house &
buy press Feb & March, nursing home
Vanessa (1902) and Virginia (1907)
Bloomsbury: 46 Gordon Sq1904-07
London and Enviorns(Fitzroy Sq.)
Bloomsbury Connections
Cambridge Connections Adrian and Thoby
Stephen Lytton Strachey
Maynard Keynes Desmond (& Molly) McCarthy
Saxon Sydney-Turner Leonard Woolf E.M. Forster
Art Connections Roger Frye Clive Bell (Cambridge) Duncan Grant (Strachey)
Bloomsbury Portraits
Roger Fry and the First Post-Impressionist Exhibition 1910
Dreadnought Hoaxers in Abyssinian Dress (1910)
Bloomsbury Group
G. E. Moore (who taught several of the Bloomsbury men at Cambridge University)
"By far the most valuable things which we know or can imagine are certain states of consciousness, which may roughly be described as the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects."
Virginia & Leonardat Asheham (1912-19)m. 1915
Suffield and Hogarth House, Richmond1915-24
Homes in Sussex
Charleston, Vanessa’s Home in Sussex1916-78 (Duncan’s death)
Monk’s House 1919-1941/69
Monk’s House Interior
Vita Sackville-West (V&V meet 1925)
Woolf’s WritingStudio
Water Meadows,Rodmel
The River Ouse