Virginia Woolf’s Death – Cause and Date
The novelist Virginia Woolf died at the age of 59. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
British novelist, essayist, and feminist whose famous modernist novels include Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. She suffered from depression throughout her life and tragically drowned herself at the age of 59.
She was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London, England. She married fellow English author, Leonard Woolf, in 1912, and also had an affair with Vita Sackville-West.
Quotes
"That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
"I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.