When separated from her sister, Vanessa, Woolf wrote letters to her daily.Ģ0. Early in her literary career, Woolf once remarked that the names of fictional characters were of little importance.ġ9. As a teenager, Woolf became so terrified of people that she blushed when someone spoke to her and was incapable of looking strangers in the eye.ġ8. At an early age, Woolf would torment her older sister, Vanessa, by scratching her nails against the wall.ġ7. Woolf was an ardent fan of attending concerts and the opera.ġ6. From the age of 11, she was continually experimenting with different kinds of pens in hope of finding one that would provide the perfect sensation.ġ5.

Woolf delighted in the physical act of writing words on paper. When Woolf taught at Morley College, she made her students write essays about themselves.ġ4. For a summer, she went mad believing that the birds were chirping in Greek and King Edward VII was uttering curses from behind nearby shrubbery.ġ3. Some of Woolf’s first articles were published in The Guardian.ġ2. Woolf once said that her death would be the “one experience I shall never describe.”ġ1. Woolf was highly critical of her friends’ eating habits at the dinner table, often reproving them for eating with either too little grace or too much enthusiasm.ġ0. Woolf once discovered a diary she had written during one particular sane and lucid period in her life, and laughed upon rereading it.ĩ. As a child, Woolf was a formidable bowler.Ĩ. Woolf’s dog, Hans, was known for interrupting parties by getting sick and relieving itself on the hearthrug.ħ. After that, no one was allowed to see her manuscripts until they were finished.Ħ. While writing her first novel, The Voyage Out, Woolf asked friends and relatives for advice whenever she got stuck or had doubts. The window she jumped from, however, was not high enough to cause serious harm.ĥ. Woolf first tried to kill herself at the age of 22 by jumping out of a window.

Valovi by Virginia Woolf