Timeline

VIRGINIA WOOLF

from Virginia Woolf and Her World by John Lehmann; 1975, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, London.

1882: 25 January: Birth of Virginia Stephen, third child of Leslie Stephen and Julia Duckworth (nп Jackson) at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington. Sister Vanessa born 1879, brothers Thoby 1880 and Adrian 1883.
1895: May: Death of Mrs. Leslie Stephen. Virginia has first breakdown that summer.
1897: July: Stella Duckworth, Virginia's half-sister, dies.
1899: September: Thoby enters Trinity College, Cambridge, at same time as Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, and Saxon Sydney-Turner.
1904: 22 February: Death of Sir Leslie Stephen. 10 May: Beginning of Virginia's second serious breakdown. 14 December: Virginia's first publication, anunsigned review in the Guardian.
1905: Thoby Stephen starts 'Thursday Evenings' at 46 Gordon Square, to which address all Stephen children have moved.
1906: September: Stephen children make expedition to Greece, Violet Dickinson with them. 20 November: Thoby dies in London of typhoid fever contracted in Greece. 23 November: Vanessa agrees to marry Clive Bell.
1907: April: Virginia and Adrian leave Gordon Square and take up residence at 29 Fitzroy Square. They renew 'Thursday Evenings' at new address.
1908: February: Julian Bell born to Vanessa and Clive.
1909: February: Lytton Strachey proposes marriage to Virginia; is accepted, but engagement cancelled shortly after.
1910: February: 'The Dreadnought hoax.' (A practical joke photograph with Virginia in blackface fools the press.) August: Birth of Claudian, later re-named Quentin, Bell. November: Opening of first Post-Impressionist Exibition, arranged by Roger Fry at Grafton Galleries.
1911: July: Leonard Woolf, on leave from Ceylon, dines at 46 Gordon Square and meets Virginia again. August: Virginia stays at The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, with Rupert Brooke. November: Virginia starts living at 38 Brunswick Square, W.C.1, with Adrian, Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, and (in December) Leonard Woolf. Virginia takes Asheham House, Sussex.
1912: May: Leonard resigns from Colonial Service and Virginia agrees to marry him. They are married in August and spend honeymoon on Continent.
1913: April: The Voyage Out (originally called Melymbrosia) accepted for publication by Duckworth. In summer Virginia begins to be seriously ill, and in September attempts suicide.
1914: February: Virginia apparently cured of mental illness.
1915: Leonard and Virginia take Hogarth House, Richmond. By end of February, Virginia begins to be seriously ill again. March: The Voyage Out published. November: Virginia once more on road to recovery.
1917: Leonard and Virginia order a hand printing machine and start Hogarth Press.
1918: May: Publication of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians.
1919: May: Night and Day accepted by Duckworth and published in October. Hogarth Press publishes Kew Gardens and T.S. Eliot's Poems. July: Leonard and Virginia buy Monk's House, Rodmell, having left Asheham.
1921: March: Monday or Tuesday published.
1922: October: Jacob's Room published. December: Virginia meets Vita Sackville-West (Mrs. Harold Nicolson) at dinner party given by Clive Bell.
1924: January: Virginia buys lease of 52 Tavistock Square, to which they move in March, with Hogarth Press. July: George Rylands becomes trainee manager at Hogarth Press. November-December: Rylands leaves Hogarth Press, and is succeeded by Angus Davidson.
1925: April: The Common Reader published. May: Mrs. Dalloway published.
1927: May: To The Lighthouse published. October: Begins to write Orlando. December: Angus Davidson leaves Hogarth Press.
1928: April-June: Virginia awarded Femina Vie Heureuse prize. October: Orlando published, and Virginia spends week in France with Vita. Virginia visits Cambridge and reads at Girton and Newnham Colleges two papers which form basis of A Room of One's Own.
1929: October: A Room of One's Own published.
1930: February: Virginia first meets Ethel Smyth, who becomes constant visitor.
1931: January: John Lehmann begins as trainee manager at Hogarth Press. April: Leonard and Virginia make tour of France by car, and visit Montaigne's Tower. October: The Waves published. Before and after publication, Virginia suffers from severe headaches and depression.
1932: January: Death of Lytton Strachey. April-May: Leonard and Virginia make tour of Greece with Roger and Margery Fry. July: Letter to a Young Poet published. September: John Lehmann leaves Hogarth Press. October: The Common Reader (Second Series) published.
1933: October: Flush published.
1934: September: Death of Roger Fry.
1935: January: Virginia's play Freshwater performed by family and friends in Vanessa's studio at 8 Fitzroy Square. All this year and next Virginia writing and rewriting The Years under great mental strain.
1937: March: The Years published. Julian Bell returns from China and joins International Brigade in Spanish Civil War; is killed in July.
1938: John Lehmann returns to Hogarth Press, and in March takes over Virginia's half-share. June: Three Guineas published.
1939: August: Leonard and Virginia move from 52 Tavistock Square to 37 Mecklenburgh Square, and take Hogarth Press with them.
1940: April: Virginia gives lecture (The Leaning Tower) to Workers' Educational Association in Brighton. July: Roger Fry, a Biography published. September: 37 Mecklenburgh Square badly damaged by fire bombs. Hogarth Press moved to Garden City Press at Letchworth.
1941: February: Virginia finishes Between the Acts. March: Virginia's mental health deteriorating again. On 28 March she drowns herself in the River Ouse.