59 Things You Didn’t Know About Virginia Woolf

In honor of La MaMa's upcoming production of Irina Brook's Shakespeare’s Sister (or La Vie Materielle), which is partially based on Virginia Woolf's A Room Of One’s Own, we bring you Flavorwire's 59 Things You Didn’t Know About Virginia Woolf:

1. As a child, it took Woolf longer than usual to begin speaking in coherent sentences. 

2. For a time, Woolf wrote while standing at a desk 3’6″ tall because she wanted to be like a painter who could instantly step away from her canvas to get a better view. 

3. While still in the nursery, she was nicknamed “The Goat.” 

4. Woolf first tried to kill herself at the age of 22 by jumping out of a window. The window she jumped from, however, was not high enough to cause serious harm.

You can read the other 55 things: HERE.