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The Letters of Virginia Woolf

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Shaun Usher
Jan 25, 2022
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Virginia Woolf in 1902, by George Beresford. Wikimedia.

English writer Virginia Woolf was born exactly1 140 years ago, so I’m sending you a Virginia Woolf Megamix—snippets from letters I’ve bookmarked over the years for all manner of reasons. These excerpts are arranged chronologically, beginning when she was just 6 and ending right before her death, aged…

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