Afterwords: Letters on the Death of Virginia Woolf

ISBN-13: 9780748622429 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str.

Oldfield, Sybil

Opis

On March 28, 1941, at the height of Hitler's victories during the Second World War, Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Since that time, Woolf's suicide has been the subject of controversy for the media, for literary scholars and for her biographers. At the time of her death, some voices in the press attacked her for showing cowardice in the face of the enemy and for setting a bad example to the general population.Just when it may seem that nothing else could be said about Virginia Woolf and the ambiguous details of her suicide, this unique volume provides an entirely fresh perspective by making available to a wide readership for the first time the letters sent to Leonard Woolf and Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf's sister) in the aftermath of the event. The volume brings together over two hundred letters from T. S. Eliot, H.G. Wells, May Sarton, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster, Radclyffe Hall, and many others, i