Virginia Woolfs many novels, notably Night and Day (1919), Jacobs Room (1922), M
rs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), transformed i
deas about structure, plot and characterisation. The third child of Leslie and J
ulia Stephen, and sister of Vanessa (later Bell), Woolf was a central figure in
the Bloomsbury Group: that union of friends who revolutionised British culture w
ith their innovative approach to art, design and society in the early years of t
he twentieth century. Portraiture figured greatly in Woolfs life.
