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
Lloyd Woolf Lloyd Woolf Lloyd Woolf is a British comedy actor and writer. He was a member of the four man group Cowards, which also included Tim Key, Tom Basden and Stefan Golaszewski. Woolf was born in Swansea. After graduating with an English degree from Cambridge University, Woolf moved to London, where he began performing as both a stand-up comedian and with the popular comedy sketch group, Cowards. Woolf performed his first solo stand-up show, Ten Shows I Abandoned, at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2007 Cowards broadcast their first radio series on BBC Radio 4. It has since been released