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Suicide Letter. Virginia Woolf. 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...
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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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Mar 28, 2014 · On March 28, 1941, shortly after the devastating dawn of WWII, Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882–March 28, 1941) filled her overcoat pockets with rocks and walked into the River Ouse behind her house never to emerge alive. A relapse of the all-consuming depression she had narrowly escaped in her youth had finally claimed her life.
I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it.
Aug 14, 2022 · March 28, 1941. Tuesday. Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we cant go through another of those terrible times. And I shant recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I cant concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness.
Jan 21, 2015 · Virginia Woolf’s inner demons got the best of her. She walked into the river Ouse with stones in her pockets and succumbed to suicide by drowning at the age of fifty-nine . Here is the text and image of Virginia Woolf’s suicide note, left to Leonard Woolf on March 28, 1941.
In her suicide note, addressed to her husband, she wrote: Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness.
