Short answers, pulled from the story.
Virginia Woolf died on the 28th of March 1941 by walking into the River Ouse and filling her pockets with heavy stones to ensure she would not float to the surface. Her body was not found until the 18th of April, and her husband buried her cremated remains beneath an elm tree in the garden of Monk's House.
Virginia Woolf was born in South Kensington on the 25th of January 1882 to Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen. She was the seventh child in a household marked by immense privilege and profound tragedy.
The Bloomsbury Group became the epicenter of a new intellectual and artistic movement where Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa moved after the death of her father in 1904. This circle included figures such as John Maynard Keynes and E. M. Forster and provided a supportive environment for her to explore her ideas and develop her literary voice.
Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard Woolf established the Hogarth Press in 1917 to maintain control over their own work and avoid the stress of submitting to external publishers. The press published works by authors such as Katherine Mansfield and T. S. Eliot and served as a platform for political and social commentary.
A Room of One's Own, published in 1929, argues that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. The essay explores the historical disempowerment of women in society, education, and the arts while introducing the fictional character of Shakespeare's sister to contrast with the opportunities available to men.