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The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930 | Virginia Woolf
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merelybookish
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I've been missing Proust in the morning, so decided to return to Woolf. I read the first two volumes of her diary a few years ago, so starting with Volume 3. There was immediate comfort to be back in her prose.

Leftcoastzen 👏🤩 8mo
batsy I love her diaries. 8mo
Suet624 That sounds like a great idea 8mo
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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This diary was interesting yet disappointing. This was during the highest point of her career but she talked more about her depressive feelings than in the other diaries. Plus, she struggled more with the act of writing. What I disliked was her seeming dishonesty. She dryly stuck more to her activities, likely trying to withhold information about the dynamics of her strange love affair with Vita. We shall see what Diary Four holds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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One will not perhaps go to the writing table & write that simple & profound paper upon suicide which I see myself leaving for my friends. (1929)

(Virginia foretold about her suicide 12 years before its occurrence)

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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Virginia surely was complicated to say the least...

October 1928
“I went to Burgundy with Vita (lover) We did not find each other out.(?) It flashed by. Yet I was glad to see Leonard (husband) again. How disconnected this is! (Yes)

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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I can think of more books than I shall ever be able to write. How many little stories come into my head.

(I‘m back to Virginia once again)

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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Often I sit and think of looking at things. The greed of my eye is insatiable. To think of seeing a new place fills me with excitement.

(Antler Hill Village, Biltmore Estate)

Mommamanzi I went through there to get some wine! 5y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads Yep! It‘s the Winery @Mommamanzi 😘 5y
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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She is describing her depressive episode positively 🤷🏽‍♀️
“These 9 weeks give one a plunge into deep waters; which is a little alarming, but full of interest.”

WomanistBibliophile It doesn‘t sound too positive to me! When I can‘t read, that‘s when it‘s really bad 5y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads I don‘t consider it positive either. Virginia is characterizing these times as being positive. I think she is rationalizing about her pain. @WomanistBibliophile 5y
WomanistBibliophile I can see why she might have to rationalise it, especially at that time when understanding of trauma was so limited. I mean, it‘s still limited now, unfortunately too 5y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads I agree with you @WomanistBibliophile ! That‘s a great point! 5y
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Say what, Virginia? You have this all wrong. I have nothing stamped on me. My hand is beautiful. I have never had problems with my color. My pain is over the times I have been treated badly just because of my color, by people who do not even know the real me.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks This makes me mad 😡😡 5y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads Where do such ideas come from is just one of the many things I don‘t understand. Virginia talks about her insight into the soul and human nature and says something like this @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 5y
SW-T I can‘t even....🤯 The only “degradation” is on the part of the viewer who refuses to see the humanity in anyone who doesn‘t look like them. We are all equals, we just don‘t all get equal opportunities, huge difference. Geez....😕😤😢 5y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads Yea. That “degradation” part. @SW-T (edited) 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Joyfulmimi I don‘t know.. and it‘s hard to believe that some people are still like this after all of this time! So disheartening 💔 5y
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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Wow! Virginia just really let me down. She just made a racist mark and of course she did it eloquently. I need to really have a long talk with her. She‘s all about the soul and focuses on color. Why, Virginia? You really should have known better.

SW-T Reading classics and older works is interesting. You get those casual racist remarks just slipped in and realize to them it wasn‘t racist, just the way things were. Still disappointing to see tho 😐 5y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads For me, in any time, why would she think her skin color is better than another‘s? It‘s not even logical to me. I still love Virginia though. I just want to talk to her about this. 🙂 5y
WomanistBibliophile I‘d be interested to see what she wrote here. That moment when you‘re reading an admired author and they write something racist is always so disappointing. And makes me think about how it‘s possible for an otherwise carefully analytical, thinking person to lose their heads to prejudice 5y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads I agree that it may be helpful for me to share @WomanistBibliophile and I will. I have not even opened up the book again yet. Yes, it was VERY disappointing. Once I post, let me know what you think. 5y
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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I wish I could tell Virginia how much I appreciate her writing these diaries. She became committed to her diary writing and the entries keep getting better and better.

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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Check out this movie poster shared by VirginiaWoolftimeless on IG Excited that I am about to read about this firsthand...well maybe secondhand...I do not know how direct Virginia will be about this in her diary. Not surprisingly, though, her first post after their dinner was about unhappiness in her marriage.

Branwen Omgggggggggg! 😍 😍 😍 I need this in my life! 5y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads That actress looks so much like her @Branwen 5y
Branwen @Joyfulmimi Right!?!? It's giving me so many chills and feels! 😍 5y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads And other woman looks like Vita. @branwen 5y
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Litpixie
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During the years this diary was kept Woolf wrote and published Mrs. Dallaway, A Room of One's Own, The Waves and Orlando. Unlike the first two volumes Woolf writes more about her writing, the process and when the books are published rather than focusing on the Bloomsbury crowd's response.