Virginia Woolf died on March 28, 1941, walking into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex with stones in her pockets. She left a note for her husband Leonard: 'I feel certain that I am going mad again.' Woolf's novels — Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves — revolutionized narrative technique through stream of consciousness and lyrical prose. Her essay A Room of One's Own became a foundational feminist text. She and Leonard ran the Hogarth Press, which published T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. She reshaped both how novels are written and who gets to write them.