Virginia becomes a professional writer
Thoby starts “Thursday Evenings” for his Cambridge friends and others (beginning of “Bloomsbury Group”), and Vanessa organises “Friday Club” for painters. Virginia becomes a paid professional writer and pens book reviews and articles for various journals (30 essays in 1905 alone), including the Anglo-Catholic clerical paper the Guardian, Cornhill Magazine (which her father had edited), and most significantly the Times Literary Supplement (TLS). Woolf’s published works during her lifetime included seven volumes of essays. She also took on various teaching jobs of the sort available to women at the time such as reading to elderly ladies at Morley College. Virginia returns to St Ives after her father’s death.