![]() ![]() From an early age, Woolf experienced breakdowns and bouts of depression that eventually led to her suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in 1941, just at the start of World War II. Woolf presents his situation with veracity as she herself suffered from what would today be diagnosed as a kind of bipolar disorder. This character, a veteran of World War I, suffers from shell-shock, but his doctors are unable to comprehend the depth of his suffering. Woolf’s choice to depict and describe in detail the experience of one character’s descent into a mental health crisis is also noteworthy. Dalloway, in the friendship between Clarissa Dalloway and Sally Seton. Woolf’s own knowledge of how it feels to be attracted to women, and her understanding of the futility of such feelings, are identifiable in Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() She married Leonard Woolf, whom she knew from the Bloomsbury Group, and she was devoted to him throughout their life together, though many scholars describe Woolf’s extramarital affair with poet Vita Sackville-West as her greatest love affair. As Woolf became older, she became a steadfast member of the Bloomsbury Group, a precocious set of young artists and intellectuals who gave her the support she needed to become a writer. Her father, Leslie Stephen, an author, critic, and biographer, fostered her love of reading as a child. From an early age, Virginia Woolf enjoyed a life of the mind. ![]()
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