<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14px"> <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2517"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2518" href="http://iht-retrospective.blogs.nytimes.com/category/in-our-pages/?module=BlogCategory&version=Blog Post&action=Click&contentCollection&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Header"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2519" color="#0066cc">In Our Pages</font></a></span> <h1 id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2520" itemprop="headline">1941: Virginia Woolf Believed Drowned</h1><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2521"><address id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2522" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemprop="author creator"> By <address id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2524" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemid="International Herald Tribune" itemprop="author creator"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2525" itemprop="name">International Herald Tribune </span><time id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2526" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2016-04-03T13:01:21+00:00">April 3, 2016 9:01 am</time> <!-- date updated --><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2527">April 3, 2016 9:01 am</span> <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2551" href="javascript:;" data-modal-title="Log in to save" data-share="save"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2553"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2554" color="#0066cc">Save</font></span></a><iframe name="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/ihtretrospective_7" width="96" height="165" title="3rd party ad content" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2566" src="javascript:"<html><body style='background:transparent'></body></html>"" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; vertical-align: bottom;" title-off=""></iframe></address></address></div><iframe name="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/ihtretrospective_7__hidden__" width="0" height="0" title="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2567" src="javascript:"<html><body style='background:transparent'></body></html>"" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: hidden;"></iframe><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2568"><figure id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2569" role="group" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" itemid="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2016/04/04/blogs/04iht-retrospective-woolf/04iht-retrospective-woolf-blog480-v2.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2570">Photo</span><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2571"><img width="480" height="561" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2572" alt="Virginia Woolf in 1902." src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2016/04/04/blogs/04iht-retrospective-woolf/04iht-retrospective-woolf-blog480-v2.jpg" itemid="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2016/04/04/blogs/04iht-retrospective-woolf/04iht-retrospective-woolf-blog480-v2.jpg" itemprop="url" data-id="b4a01425-0d7b-30f6-9f7f-cbb1a44934d7"><meta id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2573" content="561" itemprop="height"><meta id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2574" content="480" itemprop="width"></div><figcaption id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2575" itemprop="description"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2576">Virginia Woolf in 1902.</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2577" itemprop="copyrightHolder"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2578">Credit</span> </span></figcaption></figure></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2579" itemprop="articleBody">LONDON — The disappearance of Virginia Woolf, British novelist, was revealed tonight [April 2] by members of her family, who believed she had drowned.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2580" itemprop="articleBody">Mrs. Woolf, author of a long list of works dating from 1915 to 1940, left her home at Lewes, Sussex, last Friday for a walk. She has not been seen since. She was fifty-eight years old.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2581" itemprop="articleBody">Youngest daughter of the late Sir Leslie Stephen, man of letters, she was the wife of Leonard Woolf, an author and editor. Mr Woolf said his wife was ‘‘presumed dead,’’ explaining: ‘‘She went for a walk on Friday, leaving a letter behind, and it is thought that she was drowned. The body, however has not been recovered.’’</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2582" itemprop="articleBody">Mrs. Woolf frequently walked along the bank of the Ouse River, near Lewes.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2583" dir="ltr" itemprop="articleBody">Virginia Woolf, born in London in a house overlooking Hyde Park, came into the Victorian world with literary blood in her veins. All her life she was among the great of English letters, and with her novels achieved international reputation. — <strong id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1459855256622_2584">New York Herald Tribune, April 3, 1941</strong></div></div></body></html>