Virginia Woolf was born at Hyde Park Gate as Adeline Virginia Stephen. Virginia had three full siblings, Vanessa, Thoby and Adrian and 4 half siblings from her parents’ previous marriages.
Virginia starts a family newspaper at age 9 called Hyde Park Gate News.
This causes Virginia’s first break down.
Virginia attends classes at King’s College, London in Latin and Greek.
Virginia’s brother Thoby starts at Trinity College, Cambridge and becomes friends with Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Clive Bell, and Leonard Woolf (Virginia’s husband to be).
When Virginia’s father dies she has another mental break down. At the end of the year, she moves to 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury, London with her siblings Vanessa, Thoby and Adrian.
Thoby starts his Thursday Evenings at 46 Gordon Square - the beginning of the Bloomsbury Group (a group of intellectuals, artists and writers) where friends such as Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, and Leonard Woolf and John Maynard Keynes join the Stephen siblings for recitals and conversation.
Thoby dies of thyroid fever 1906 and when Virginia and Adrian moves into 29 Fitzroy Square in 1907, Virginia takes over Thoby’s Thursday Evenings.
Virginia does volunteer work for the women’s suffrage movement.
Virginia and Adrian move into a shared house on Brunswick Square in Bloomsbury together with John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf and one more.
