Adeline Virginia Woolf  (née 
Stephen ; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her best-known works include the novels 
Mrs Dalloway (1925),  
To the Lighthouse (1927) and 
Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay 
A Room of One’s Own (1929), with its dictum, ‘A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.’ Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life[4] and took her own life by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.