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
Leonard Woolf Leonard's tracts and, among other works, the first edition of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". Woolf continued as the main director of the Press until his death. His wife suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, until her suicide by drowning in 1941. Later Leonard fell in love with a married artist, Trekkie Parsons. In 1919, Woolf became editor of the "International Review". He also edited the international section of the "Contemporary Review" from 1920 to 1922. He was literary editor of "The Nation and Atheneum", generally referred to simply as "The Nation", from 1923 to 1930),