Adeline Virginia Woolf - London

Adeline Virginia Woolf born 25 January 1882 an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

She wrote 'To The Lighthouse' in 1927 and 'The Common Reader' in 1925.

.  She suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life. On 28 March 1941, Woolf drowned herself by filling her overcoat pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse near her home. Her body was not found until 18 April. 

Her husband buried her cremated remains beneath an elm tree in the garden of Monk's House, their home in Rodmell, Sussex.