Short answers, pulled from the story.
Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on the 25th of January 1882 in South Kensington, London. She was the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen, and grew up in a blended household of eight children.
Virginia Woolf is best known for her novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and for the feminist essay A Room of One's Own (1929). She was one of the pioneers of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
The Hogarth Press was a publishing house Virginia and Leonard Woolf established in 1917, beginning with a hand-printing press set up on the dining room table of Hogarth House in Richmond. Leonard intended it partly to relieve Virginia of the emotional strain of submitting manuscripts to outside publishers. The press went on to publish T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, and the first complete English translation of Sigmund Freud, and by 1946 had published 527 titles.
Virginia Woolf met Vita Sackville-West on the 14th of December 1922. The two women became lovers for roughly a decade and remained close friends until Woolf's death in 1941. The title character of Woolf's novel Orlando (1928) was directly inspired by Sackville-West.
Virginia Woolf drowned herself on the 28th of March 1941 by walking into the fast-flowing River Ouse near her home in Rodmell, Sussex, after placing a large stone in her pocket. Her body was not found until the 18th of April. Leonard buried her cremated remains beneath an elm tree in the garden of Monk's House.
A Room of One's Own (1929) argues that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. The book grew from two lectures Woolf delivered at Cambridge University in 1928 and examines how the historical disempowerment of women in financial, educational, and social spheres suppressed female literary genius.