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Virginia Woolf died by drowning in the River Ouse on 28 March 1941, after struggling with mental illness.
’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...
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...
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...