Writer, Editor and Essayist

Virginia Woolf was the writer who turned stream of consciousness into art and proved that literature doesn't have to follow rules to be brilliant. Born in 1882 in England, she grew up surrounded by books and became one of the greatest modernists of the 20th century.

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With novels such as ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘To the Lighthouse’, she revolutionised the way stories were told, delving deep into the minds of her characters. She also wrote ‘A Roof All Your Own’, a powerful manifesto about female independence (and the need for one's own creative space). Part of the Bloomsbury group, she lived art and philosophy intensely, but also battled depression. In 1941, tired of her inner shadows, she left tragically, but left a literary legacy that continues to influence writers and readers to this day.