· 1895 – Virginia’s mother dies. Virginia suffers, at the age of thirteen, the first of many nervous breakdowns. · 1899 - Virginia’s brother Thoby enters Trinity and Cambridge. Here he meets Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf and Clive Bell. The friends form the Bloomsbury Group, of which Virginia became a prominent and influential member. · 1904 – The death of Virginia’s father triggered her second serious breakdown. Virginia also got her first work published in this year, an unsigned review in The Guardian. She spent the rest of this year and 1905 traveling in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. · 1906 - Virginia spends her time reading, writing and reviewing, as well as teaching at Morley College evening institute for working men and women. Virginia’s brother Thoby dies. · 1907 – Virginia’s sister Vanessa marries Clive Bell and the two keep the Bloomsbury Group going. Virginia moves to Fitzroy Square with her brother Adrian and begins work on her first novel. · 1911 – Virginia moves to a house in Brunswick Square, living with Adrian, Leonard Woolf and two other men. · 1912 – Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf in the St. Pancras Registry Office on August 10. · 1913 – Less than a year after her marriage, mental illness caused Virginia to make her first attempt at suicide. · 1915 – The couple purchases Hogarth House in Richmond. Virginia’s first novel, The Voyage Out, is published by Duckworth & Co., and is well received. The publication of her first book is followed by another bout of severe mental illness. · 1917 – Virginia and Leonard buy a small, hand-printing machine and establish Hogarth Press. The press goes on to publish T.S. Eliot, Freud and Woolf’s own books. · 1919 – Virginia’s second novel published. Develops a brief friendship with Katherine Mansfield. Experiments with prose fiction. · 1920 through 1930 – Works on journalism and writing. Has five novels and a book of essays published. Has a brief affair. Virginia is relatively stable during this decade.
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