Welcome to Litsy!

What can I say to do justice to this book, I have hear about Virginia Wolff‘s letter a number of years ago. When I started I felt like I was reading her diary 📔 and I was amazed at how honest and open she was about her mental health. She comes across shy and very unsure of her friendships and her writing skills. I look forward to the next five volumes

I don't know if this counts as a series but I love these volumes of Virgina Woolf's letters. #20series20days
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Part of my used bookstore haul... A complete set of the Hogarth Press edition of Woolf's letters. 😍

It's taken more than a month, but I finally finished the first volume of Woolf's letters. These years include the deaths of her father and brother, the formation of the Bloomsbury set, and the beginning of her writing career. It ends the day before she married Leonard Woolf in August 1912 at the age of 30.
Her tone matured a lot over the years. I enjoyed reading about her hopes and struggles with writing. Time for a novel!
#myyearofreadingwoolf

Virgina Woolf's older brother Thoby died of typhoid fever on November 20th. For the next month, Woolf wrote letters to her friend Violet Dickinson, who was also sick with typhoid, never letting on Thoby had died. She would describe his meals, moods, visitors, and his general improvement. This letter on December 17th, discusses Thoby's convalescence.
Violet eventually learned of Thoby's death from a newspaper article.

I finished Volume 1 of Woolf's diaries, so now on to her letters. (I should have done it the other way round as VW was an avid letter writer long before she was a dedicated diarist.)
I'm enjoying spending time each day amid her private thoughts and confidences.
Intro by Nigel Nicholson, Vita Sackville-West's son. He writes, "Woolf was not interested in the weird, but in the mystery of the normal." ?

Today's #bookmail. 🎉🎉 Things are getting serious!
#virginiaandme #myyearofreadingwoolf

I have been searching for the letters of Virginia Woolf for AGES. Unfortunately, I'm still missing volume 4, but thanks to the amazing Bryn Mawr Bookstore for helping me find the rest!