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Virginia Woolf’s final note to her husband Leonard, likely drafted on March 25, 1941. You can browse condolence letters to Leonard from some of the couple’s notable friends, including T. S ...
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28 de mar. de 2014 · Afterwords is a moving read in its entirety — sample it with these letters of condolence from some of Woolf’s famous friends, including T.S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, E.M. Foster, Elizabeth Bowen, and H.G. Wells, then see Patti Smith’s moving remembrance of Virginia.
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On Jan. 25, 1882, Virginia Woolf, née Adeline Virginia Stephen, was born into a privileged English family. Her parents, Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Stephen, were prominent figures in their London community. Both were writers themselves, with Leslie working as the editor of the Dictionary of National Biographyand Julia penning a book on her profess...
Virginia Woolf once said, “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” Woolf lost many of her illusions as a young child through instances of trauma. The first of these came when her half-brothers, George and Gerald Duckworth, began to sexually abuse her. In her personal essays, Woolf revealed that the abuse occurred from the ...
On the morning of March 28, 1941, Leonard Woolf knew that something was not right with his wife of 29 years. After speaking with her in her writing lodge outside of their Sussex home, he suggested that she go inside and rest. This was the last time Leonard saw his wife alive. After Leonard went to his office, Woolf put on her fur coat and Wellingto...
Following Virginia Woolf’s death, she was cremated and her ashes were sprinkled beneath the two Elm trees, nicknamed “Virginia” and “Leonard,” in the couple’s backyard. Leonard had a stone engraved with the last lines from her novel The Waves: “Against you I fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! The waves broke on the shore.” She left...
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Her suicide note, written to her husband Leonard, is a haunting and beautiful document, in all its unadorned sincerity behind which much turmoil and anguish lie. See a scan of the handwritten note at the top, and read the full transcript below.
In the film, however, before her suicide, she writes two farewell letters, one to her husband and one to her sister, Vanessa. This is not entirely accurate, Vara Neverow, president of the International Virginia Woolf Society, points out.
23 de ago. de 2019 · “I simply adore Virginia Woolf, and so would you,” Sackville-West wrote to her husband after their first meetings. “You would fall quite flat before her charm and personality.”
21 de jan. de 2015 · Virginia Woolf's suicide note left to her husband Leonard Woolf on March 28, 1941, just prior to her death by drowning in the river Ouse.
