[Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf's Suicide

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1941: Virginia Woolf Believed Drowned
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International Herald Tribune  April 3, 2016 9:01 am April 3, 2016 9:01 am   Save
PhotoVirginia Woolf in 1902.Credit LONDON — The disappearance of Virginia Woolf, British novelist, was revealed tonight [April 2] by members of her family, who believed she had drowned.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.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.’’Mrs. Woolf frequently walked along the bank of the Ouse River, near Lewes.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. — New York Herald Tribune, April 3, 1941
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