Virginia Woolf was born into a literary family. When she was in her twenties, she moved to Bloomsbury where she began writing for the Times Literary Supplement. In 1915, she published her first book, The Voyage Out . In 1917, along with her husband Leonard, she set up the Hogarth Press, one of the lynchpins of the Bloomsbury Group.
By the 1930s, Virginia Woolf was acknowledged as one of the leading exponents of the modernist style. Her most overtly feminist book is A Room of One's Own, published in 1929. She suffered from recurring bouts of depressive illness and in 1941 she drowned herself in the River Ouse near her Sussex home.
