Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is one of the great literary geniuses of the twentieth century. Her innovative fiction and essays are revered by readers around the globe. She was a central member of the Bloomsbury group and a ground-breaking feminist, publishing book-length essays (A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas, for example) that continue to change the lives of women today. Her most popular novels include To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, and Orlando: A Biography. When she was not writing, Virginia Woolf operated Hogarth Press with her husband Leonard Woolf.
Virginia Woolf wrote On Being Ill between Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Throughout much of her life she faced the challenges of illness; in this ground-breaking work, Woolf reveals the transforming and magical effects that illness has, as well as the devastation that it imposes on the suffering.