To mark what would have been Virginia Woolf's birthday, AnOther looks at the life and work of one of Modernism’s most important literary figures ❤️
She is most famous, sadly, for her lifelong struggle with mental illness, documented throughout her diaries and in her essay ‘On Being Ill’. On March 28, 1941, after writing a letter addressed to her husband – in which she wrote, “I owe all the happiness of my life to you” – Woolf put stones in her pockets and drowned herself in the River Ouse, near where she lived in Rodmell, Sussex.
Most poignantly, Woolf used objects as a way of depicting a person’s absence. In Jacob’s Room, which was first published in 1922, we know Jacob is dead when his mother holds out a pair of his old shoes. Similarly, after Mrs Ramsay has died in To The Lighthouse, her green shawl sways emptily in the wardrobe of her crumbling house as a constant reminder that she is gone.
But flowers also featured heavily on the covers of Woolf’s novels. In 1917, Leonard and Virginia bought a hand printing press with the intention of publishing limited editions of Virginia’s novels. Woolf enlisted her sister, Vanessa Bell, to design the book jackets. Bell’s cover designs recall Bloomsbury still-life paintings, with exaggerated long-stemmed flowers spilling from round vases, printed on coloured paper.
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