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"The last day of being 35. One trembles to write the years that come after it: all tinged with the shadow of 40." - Virginia Woolf, diary, Jan 24, 1918
“It's a queer winter – the worst I ever knew, & suitable for the war & all the rest of it.” - Virginia Woolf, diary, Jan 22, 1915
On this day in 1932, Lytton Strachey dies of stomach cancer at the age of 51 ift.tt/3ay9f3M
“I have this moment, while having my bath, conceived an entire new book – a sequel to A Room of One's Own – about the sexual life of women: to be called Professions of Women perhaps – Lord how exciting!” - Virginia Woolf, diary, Jan 20, 1931
“The afternoons now have an elongated pallid look, as if it were neither winter nor spring.” - Virginia Woolf, diary, Jan 13, 1915
“At this very moment, or fifteen minutes ago, to be precise, I bought the ten years lease of 52 Tavistock Sqre London W.C.1. - I like writing Tavistock.” - Virginia Woolf, diary, Jan 9, 1924
Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Response: Grasping the Essential Thing ift.tt/2SRVTJk
On this day in 1897, Virginia Woolf begins to keep a regular diary. Almost 100 years later, in 1990, these early diaries were finally published, under the title Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 amzn.to/2CFZ7r3
“Half way home we heard 'British warship...British warship' & found that the Formidable has been sunk in the channel. We were kept awake last night by New Year bells. At first I thought they were ringing for a victory.” - Virginia Woolf, Diary, January 1, 1915