The Mark on the Wall: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

Adeline Virginia Woolf was born on the 25th January 1882 in South Kensington in London.

Although lauded as a founder of modernist writing with such classics as `Orlando', `Mrs Dalloway' and `To the Lighthouse' and, of course, many classic short stories, her background is filled with elements of tragedy that she somehow overcame to become such a revered writer. Her mother died when she was 13, her half-sister Stella two years later and with it her first of several nervous breakdowns. Appallin...