Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf?
Author | : Irene Coates |
Publisher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2003-07 |
ISBN-13 | : 1569472947 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781569472941 |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Download or read book Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf? written by Irene Coates and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Virginia Woolf suicidal, or was she betrayed and driven to taking her own life? Irene Coates argues, with forensic precision, that Leonard Woolf was responsible for the unraveling of his wife's sanity and her subsequent suicide. These two people were at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group; one a mad genius, the other a so-called selfless husband. But underneath that caring veneer beat the heart of a pessimistic, repressed, bullying, and hypocritical man, one who may have been responsible for the death of Virginia Woolf