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Suicide Letter. Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf’s final note to her husband Leonard, likely drafted on March 25, 1941. You can browse condolence letters to Leonard from some of the...
From Virginia Woolf's suicide note to her death in England's River Ouse on March 28, 1941, learn the true story behind the author's demise.
On March 28, 1941, shortly after the devastating dawn of WWII, Virginia Woolf (January 25, 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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S SUICIDE NOTE. Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do.
Suicide Note (1941) by Virginia Woolf. →. sister projects: Wikidata item. March 28, 1941. Tuesday. Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we cant go through another of those terrible times.
Virginia Woolf’s inner demons got the best of her. She walked into the river Ouse with stones in her pockets and succumbed to suicide by drowning at the age of fifty-nine. Here is the text and image of Virginia Woolf’s suicide note, left to Leonard Woolf on March 28, 1941. . . . . . . . . . .
In her suicide note, addressed to her husband, she wrote: Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness.
The Death of Virginia Woolf. On March 28th, 1941, Woolf committed suicide by strolling into the nearby River Ouse while carrying a bag of stones in her coat pockets. It was the 18th of April before her body was discovered.
The question of mental health simmers below the surface (she had always been “morbidly self-critical,” the piece notes) but her suicide, in 1941, was painted by the press as something that must...
Many critics and scholars have argued about Woolf’s reasons for committing suicide. In a letter written to her husband shortly before her death, Woolf indicates that she intends to kill herself because she believes that another breakdown is impending.