The Diary of Virginia Woolf | The Diary of Virginia Woolf

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Author: Virginia Woolf
Type of Work: Diary
Time of Work: 1915-1941
Setting: England, France, and Scotland
Principal Characters: Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Julian Bell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, John Lehmann, Vita Sackville-West, Lytton Strachey
Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Diary
Subjects: Culture, Memory, Sex or sexuality, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Social life, Writing, Mental illness, Novelists, Feminism, Women’s issues, Criticism, Creative process, Biography
Locales: London, England, Sussex, England

On January 3, 1897, shortly before her fifteenth birthday, Virginia Stephen began to keep a diary, which she maintained faithfully for much of the year. After the death of her half sister, Stella, in July, however, entries became sparser, and on September 14 she wrote, “We will follow the year to its end & then fling diaries and diarising into the corner—to dust & mire & moths & all creeping crawling eating destroying creatures.” Despite this resolution, she subsequently made a number of attempts at “diarising,” one of these resulting...

The Diary of Virginia Woolf | The Diary of Virginia Woolf

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