Early Life Virginia Woolf an English writer was raised in a extraordinary household. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was an author and historian, also one of the most well-known figures in the golden age of climbing. Mother of Woolf’s Julia Prinsep Stephen, was born in India and later served as a model for several Pre-Raphaelite painters where she was also a nurse and wrote a book on the profession. Moreover Woolf had three siblings and four half-siblings. (Karjagdiu. L, 2010 ) In addition from the time of her birth, on January 25, 1882, until 1895, Woolf spent her summers in St. Ives, a beach town at the very south western trip of England. Where the Stephens’ summer home, Talland House, which is still standing today, while looking out at the dramatic Porthminster Bay and is a short walking space …show more content…
Moreover she started a family newspaper, the Hyde Park Gate News, to document her family’s humorous anecdotes. However she had been traumatized at the age of six when her half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth sexually abuse her. Besides this dark spot was only made deeper and more eternal when her mother suddenly died at the age of 49. In addition the hormones of early adolescence and the indisputable reality of this huge loss revolve Woolf into a nervous breakdown, only made worse when two years later, her half-sister Stella also