March 28, 1941: Virginia Woolf’s Suicide Letter and Its Cruel Misinterpretation in the Media – Brain Pickings

On March 28, 1941, shortly after the devastating dawn of WWII, Virginia Woolf (January 15, 1882–March 28, 1941) filled her overcoat pockets with rocks and walked into the River Ouse behind her house never to emerge alive. A relapse of the all-consuming depression she had narrowly escaped in her youth had finally claimed her life. She left behind a remarkable body of work — from her poignant diaries to her magnificent essays to her little-known children’s books to “the longest and most charming love letter in literature” — and a cohort of heartbroken friends, but the most stirring thing she left behind was her suicide letter to her husband Leonard:

March 28, 1941: Virginia Woolf’s Suicide Letter and Its Cruel Misinterpretation in the Media – Brain Pickings