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English modernist writer (1882–1941)
Virginia Woolf died by deliberately entering the River Ouse on 28 March 1941, having placed heavy stones in her coat pockets so she would drown; this is the established account across biographies and ...
’s best‑known suicide note begins, “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again,” and goes on to explain she could not endure another episode, that she was hearing voices and losing concentratio...
Leonard Woolf discovered Virginia’s disappearance, found her note, notified friends, identified her body and spent years framing her death in published memoirs and private correspondence; he protested...
left three short farewell notes in March 1941: a long, intimate letter to , a slightly earlier letter to , and a brief note left in her writing room; the texts vary in length, addressee, and rhetorica...
Virginia Woolf died by suicide on 28 March 1941 after a period of worsening depression; she left handwritten notes for her husband and sister, walked into the River Ouse near her home at Monk’s House ...
repeatedly returned to themes of across both fiction and personal writing, embedding suicide as a moral, existential and narrative problem rather than merely a plot device . Key fictional treatments a...