This author of "Orlando" based her 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" on the life & death of her brother Thoby
[DOC] [TLE] Virginia Woolf - Wikipedia [PAR] Adeline Virginia Woolf (ne Stephen; 25 January 1882  28 March 1941), known 
professionally ... Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout 
her life, thought ... lost her surrogate mother, Stella Duckworth, as well as her 
cherished brother Thoby, .... Orlando (1928) is one of Virginia Woolf's lightest 
novels.