"On August 3, 1917, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary for the first time in two years—a small notebook, roughly the size of the palm of her hand. It was a Friday, the start of the bank holiday, and she had traveled from London to Asheham, her rented house in rural Sussex, with her husband, Leonard. For the first time in days, it had stopped raining, and so she ‘walked out from Lewes.’ There were ‘men mending the wall & roof’ of the house, and Will, the gardener, had ‘dug up the bed in front, leaving only one dahlia.’ Finally, ‘bees in attic chimney.’ It is a stilted beginning, and yet with each entry, her diary gains in confidence. Soon, Woolf establishes a pattern. ...”
2019 April: Bloomsbury Group, 2020 August: How Virginia Woolf Kept Her Brother Alive in Letters, 2021 January: Michael Cunningham on Virginia Woolf’s Literary Revolution, 2021 June: A House of One’s Own - Janet Malcolm
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