Things you might not know about Virginia Woolf

  1. ‘Virginia’ was Woolf’s middle name: her full name was Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen). 2. Woolf was born in 1882, the same year as James Joyce; she died in 1941, the same year as James Joyce. They never met. 3. Woolf’s father, Leslie Stephen, was the son-in-law (through his first marriage) of the famous Victorian novelist William Makepeace …