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The Mark on the Wall Adeline Virginia Woolf PART ONE About the WriterAdeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) She was an English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Born in an affluent household in Kensington, London, she attended the Kings College London and was acquainted with the early reformers of womens higher education. About the WriterMother : Julia StephenEnglish philanthropist and a Pre-Raphaelite modelFather : Sir Leslie Stephen KCB English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer About the WriterSister : Vanessa Bell English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury GroupHusband : Leonard Sidney Woolf English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant About the WriterGodfather : James Russell Lowell American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat.Aunt : Julia Margaret Cameron British photographer About the WriterWhy am I so incredibly and incurably romantic about Cornwall? One’s past, I suppose; I see children running in the garden … The sound of the sea at night … almost forty years of life, all built on that, permeated by that: so much I could never explain. —— Virginia Woolf March 22, 1921St Ives, Cornwall About the WriterThe sudden death of her mother in 1895, when Virginia was thirteen, and that of her half-sister Stella two years later, led to the first of Virginias several nervous breakdowns.The death of her father in 1904 provoked her most alarming collapse and she almost killed herself.Modern scholars (including her nephew and biographer, Quentin Bell) have suggested her breakdowns and subsequent recurring depressive periods were also influenced by the sexual abuse to which she and her sister Vanessa were subjected by their half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth (which Woolf recalls in her autobiographical essays A Sketch of the Past an