Her sister, Stella married but she died on her return from her honeymoon. Her father died in 1904 and Virginia had a second breakdown. In 1912, Virginia got married with Leonard Woolf in St. Pancras Registry Office. Virginia committed suicide by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59. Virginia Woolf never went to school but her father allowed her to access his father's library. She determined to be a writer from an early age. Virginia started with reviewing a clerical paper called the Guardian; in 1905, she started reviewing in the Times Literary Supplement and continued writing for that journal for many years. Since about 1908 Virginia had been writing her first novel The Voyage Out. It was finished by 1913. Virginia wrote, printed and published a couple of experimental short stories, 'The Mark on the Wall' and 'Kew Gardens'. In 1921, Virginia's first collection of short stories Monday or Tuesday were completed, most of which were experimental in nature. In 1922, her first experimental novel, Jacob's Room, appeared. In 1925, Mrs. Dalloway was published, followed by To the Lighthouse in 1927, and The Waves in 1931. .
To the Lighthouse has three chapters beginning with the chapter titled as "The Window" and it refers to the process before World War 1 in the historical timeline. James who is one of the eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay's, wants his father to bring him to the lighthouse but Mr. Ramsay glosses his wish over and that is why James thinks that Mr. Ramsay is rather grim to both James and his other seven siblings. Beside this, Mrs. Ramsay with her good intention wants Charles Tansley and Lily Briscoe to marry. After Mrs. Ramsay understands that Lily does not intend to marry, she changed the couple about marriage and wished Paul Rayley and Minta Doyle's marriage. M. and Mrs. Ramsay organized a dinner party to bring all their acquaintances together. As Lily hates Charles Tansley due to his concern that women should not be a member of working class, she said what is in her mind without any consideration.