Virginia Woolf friends, they formed the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group. In 1912, Woolf married Leonard Woolf and in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press, which published much of her work. The couple rented second homes in Sussex and moved there permanently in 1940. Throughout her life, Woolf was troubled by bouts of mental illness, which included being institutionalised and attempting suicide. Her illness is considered to have been bipolar disorder, for which there was no effective intervention at the time. Eventually in 1941 she committed suicide by putting rocks in her pockets and drowning herself in a river, at the age
William Press Group of Ray Daniels. The name of the company changed from "William Press & Son" to "William Press Group" in 1981. It merged with Leonard Fairclough & Son in 1982 to form AMEC. William Press Group William Press Group was a leading British engineering business which merged with Leonard Fairclough & Son to become a FTSE 100 company, AMEC. The company was founded by William Allpress in 1913 in London. In 1954 it started to focus on developments in cathodic protection for pipelines forming "Metal and Pipeline Endurance Ltd" ('MAPEL'). In the 1970s it converted about 50% of the UK's houses