Original Primitive Folk Art Painting These little treasures are on staple free canvas with the sides painted black so there is no need to frame. This collection of "Literary Greats" paintings are perfect for book shelves, desks or just about anywhere. Portrait of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” - Woolf Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882 in London, as the daughter of Julia Jackson Duckworth, a member of the Duckworth publishing family, and Leslie Stephen, a literary critic and the founder of the Dictionary of National Biography. Woolf was educated at home by her father, and grew up at the family home at Hyde Park Gate. Her mother died when she was in her early teens. Stella Duckworth, her half sister, took her mother's place, but died two years later. Leslie Stephen, her father, suffered a slow death from cancer. When her brother Toby died in 1906, she had a prolonged mental breakdown. Following the death of her father in 1904, Woolf moved with her sister Vanessa and two brothers to the house in Bloomsbury, which would become central to activities of the Bloomsbury group. From 1905 Woolf began to write for the Times Literary Supplement. In 1912 she married the political theorist Leonard Woolf and published her first book, The Voyage Out in 1915. In 1919 appeared Night And Day, a realistic novel set in London, contrasting the lives of two friends, Katherine and Mary. Jacob's Room (1922) was based upon the life and death of her brother Toby. With To The Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931) Woolf established herself as one of the leading writers of modernism. In these works Woolf developed innovative literary techniques in order to reveal women's experience and find an alternative to the male-dominated views of reality. Mrs. Dalloway (1925) is formed of a giant web of thoughts of several groups of people during the course of a single day. Virginia Woolf's concern with feminist thematics are dominant in A Room Of One's Own (1929), which deals with the obstacles and prejudices that have hindered women writers, and explores in the last chapter the possibility of an androgynous mind. Woolf was also prolific as an essayist, publishing some 500 essays in periodicals and collections, beginning 1905. After her final attack of mental illness Woolf loaded her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse near her Sussex home on March 28, 1941.