Born as Adeline Virginia Stephen in Hyde Park Gate, London. Drowned herself in the River Ouse Rodmell, Sussex by filling pockets with stones.
Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived at no. 52 Tavistock Square (on the south side but destroyed during the Second World War) from 1924 to 1939. During this period Woolf wrote some of her most famous works, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves.
Dr Jean Moorcroft, Camden New Journal, 31.3.2011, reminds us that “Apart from a period of what she regarded as “exile” in Richmond, the whole of Woolf's writing life was spent in one or other of Camden’s garden squares – Gordon Square, Fitzroy Square, Brunswick Square, Tavistock Square and, briefly, Mecklenburgh Square.” Not quite true, says a plaque in Clifford's Inn, the City (1912 - 1913).
While their home in Tavistock Square had the builders in the Woolfs lived at 37 Mecklenburgh Square, October 1939 - August 1940, when a bomb forced them out. The site is now occupied by Goodenough House, built 1957.
The excellent has a page listing Woolf's London addresses, with dates.
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