1. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. “

2.  Adeline Virginia Stephen is born. She is the third of four children born to Julia Prinsep Stephen and her husband Leslie. She also has four half-siblings from her parents' previous marriages. Virginia's parents are fixtures on the London literary and intellectual scene and she grows up in a home full of books.

3.  1891: Sister Laura, institutionalized  1895: Mother dies; begins first depression  1897: Sister Stella dies  1904: Father dies; tries to commit suicide  1906: Brother Thoby dies  1934: Brother Howard dies  1937: Nephew dies  March 28, 1941 Commits Suicide

4.  “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that—everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V”

5.  1922: Virginia Woolf publishes Jacob's Room, a novel based on her brother Thoby's death. In this same year she meets Vita Sackville-West, a married writer. The two women begin a love affair—with Leonard Woolf's knowledge and permission—that lasts through the 1920s. After their romantic relationship ends, they remain close friends until Woolf's death.  Much of her works have lesbian and feminist themes to them.  Today much of Woolf’s focus in study is on those themes.

6. NOVELS:  The Voyage Out (1915)  Night and Day (1919)  Jacob's Room (1922)  Mrs Dalloway (1925)*  To the Lighthouse (1927)  Orlando (1928)  The Waves (1931) SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS:  Kew Gardens (1919)  Monday or Tuesday (1921)  A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944)  Mrs Dalloway's Party (1973)  The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)

7.  Clarissa- Protagonist.  Peter- Ex lover, whom Clarissa rejected.  Sally- Friend and former love interest.  Septimus Smith- War Vet with shell shock.