Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group
Virginia Woolf was one of England’s most celebrated writers. Although she spent a lot of time in Cornwall, most of her later years were spent near Glynde in East Sussex. She and her sister and friends would gather to talk of life, truth and beauty.
She and her husband Leonard founded a book publisher, and as creative pacifists, this became an outlet to help Virginia’s fragile mental health. Walks on the Sussex Downs helped enormously. But only for a while.
Her depression was so bad, that one day she filled her coat pocket with stones, and walked into the River Ouse. She was just 59 years old.
