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Letter from Leonard Woolf to John Lehmann, his wife Virginia Woolf's publisher, telling him of her nervous breakdown, 1941. 'The Hogarth Press, 37, Mecklenburgh Square, London, w.c.1...28/3/41. Dear John, I enclose a letter from Virginia. The fact is that she is on the verge of a complete nervous break down and is seriously ill. The [Second World] war, food &c have been telling on her and I have seen it coming on for some time. It is out of the question for her to touch the book ["Between the Acts"] now and so we must put it off indefinitely. Send it back to me and dont answer this letter. I will come up to town and discuss the whole thing with you when I can. I am sorry for your and the Press sake; there seems some fate against you in the publishing world. The whole thing is a nightmare. Would you mind writing a note to V saying that you're very sorry that we shant be able to publish in the spring, but that we will hope for the autumn? Yours, Leonard Woolf'. That same day, 28 March 1941, Woolf committed suicide by drowning herself. She walked into the fast-flowing River Ouse near their Sussex home, after placing a large stone in her pocket.

Date

1941

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A16_014

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

49,9Mo (1,9Mo) / 31,3cm x 40,0cm / 3696 x 4723 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England library job health arts country occupation British letter English color death illness text location century Britain worry profession handwriting breakdown worried ill sepia nervous breakdown literature concept suicide nightmare correspondence 1940s signature British Library lettering mental illness publishing Forties Colour publisher 20th century publishers Bloomsbury Group decade Hogarth Press ink English literature Virginia Woolf Woolf Stephen John Leonard Woolf Woolf Leonard letterhead Heritage Art Lehmann Virginia Adeline Virginia Woolf Virginia Stephen Adeline Virginia Adeline Virginia Stephen John Lehmann Rudolf John Frederick Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann