Virginia Woolf(弗吉尼亚&183;伍尔芙)——阅读背景材料来自wikipedia(8)

Suicide

After completing the manuscript of her last (posthumously published) novel, Between the Acts, Woolf fell victim to a depression similar to that which she had earlier experienced. The onset of World War II, the destruction of her London home during the Blitz, and the cool reception given to her biography of her late friend Roger Fry all worsened her condition until she was unable to work.

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On 28 March 1941, Woolf committed suicide. She put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, then walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself. Woolf's skeletonised body was not found until 18 April 1941.[24] Her husband buried her cremated remains under an elm in the garden of Monk's House, their home in Rodmell, Sussex.

In her last note to her husband she wrote:

“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. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I

don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't

fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work.

And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I

want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely

patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me

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