While reading Mrs. Dalloway, I felt like there was somewhat a connection between Clarissa's two lovers, Richard and Sally, and Woolf's two lovers, Leonard and Vita. Without much description of their relationship in the book(only mentioning the way they met and their life after marriage, nothing about all the steps in between. Clarissa never reminisces about her relationship with Richard the way she does with Sally and Peter), the marriage between Clarissa and Richard seemed very sudden to me. And their marital life is somewhat distant with both of them respecting each other's privacy(honestly they just don't care what the other person does every day).
Virginia's marriage with Leonard was similar to this to an extent. Leonard first asked Virginia to marry him after they've only formally met once(he went to dine with Virginia's family before he goes off to Sri Lanka). He received no answer from Virginia and went off to Sri Lanka. Several years later he came back, joined the Bloomsbury group, and reconnected with Virginia. A few months later he proposed again and Virginia said years after 4 months of consideration(even though a few days before she said yes she wrote a letter to him saying how she did not want marriage). The whole marriage between Leonard and Virginia just seemed as sudden as Clarissa and Richard's, with not much foundation nor passion between the two couples.
However, with Vita/Sally, the situation was different. If Virginia's relationship with Leonard(and Clarissa's with Richard) represented the traditional, heterosexual marriage that fits society's expectations, her relationship with Vita is like a passionate affair. I think both Virginia and Clarissa feel more passionately toward their relationship with women than toward their marriages, with Clarissa saying the kiss with Sally is "the most exquisite moment of her life" and Virginia writing countless of love letters to Vita. I think Sally represents the side of Clarissa that wants to break free of society's repression and expectations. Sally is wild, adventurous, reckless, everything that Clarissa is not. She wants to become Sally but she can't. The same goes for Vita and Virginia. I found this connection between characters in the book and Woolf's real life is especially interesting.