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
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film) 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" ranked #67. Paul Mavis, reviewing for DVD Talk Warner Bros.'s 2006 "Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton: The Film Collection" disc release of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", wrote, ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" exists now as one of the seminal dramas of the modern screen. And its existence counterbalances every gauche public display the Burtons perpetrated, every ream of wasted newsprint devoted to their sometimes silly, outsized lives, and every mediocre film they made before and after its production. It is the peak of their collective and individual careers. And