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More than seventy years after her death, Virginia Woolf continues to be a source of inspiration, analysis, interest, and admiration.

Emphasis on a small number of famous events in her lifetime has turned her into a mythological figure that, at times, may have little resemblance to the flesh-and-blood woman behind the brand.

Did You know:

In April 1935, Virginia and Leonard Woolf decided to drive through Germany as part of their annual holiday. Although they made light of the possible dangers of this endeavor, in Bonn they found the streets lined with Nazi supporters awaiting the arrival of Hermann Goering.

Leonard would later recall that, for miles, he ‘drove between two lines of frenzied Germans’ who, at the sight of their pet monkey Mitz, delightedly shouted ‘Heil Hitler!’ and ‘gave her (and secondarily Virginia and me) the Hitler salute with outstretched arm.’ Virginia, for her part, raised her hand and waved back.



And a FUN FACT
When Virginia and Leonard Woolf, who together ran the Hogarth Press, received the manuscript of the first chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses, they turned it down for publication because it was impossible to print the entire book on their handpress.


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