Swan Reflections

Virginia Woolf was not for the people who have a weak of heart.  She was a writer who made language bend and bleed until it revealed the truth of her own misery and the ones similar to her; she was a genius but like a wall of a house with cracked walls.  If you think she's just another dusty modernist author, you're mistaken. Her name is likely familiar to you from Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, or that notorious suicide note. Literature has yet to find a way to bury Woolf's ghost. So, let's chat about her a little so that we get to know her ghost. Childhood: Trauma Was the Family Heirloom Virginia Woolf (born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882) did not exactly win the lottery of happy childhoods. Virginia lost her father a few years later, her half-sister shortly after, and her mother when she was thirteen. Imagine attempting to restore your sanity while grief is sent to you seasonally like an undesired subscription box. It was referred to as tragedy in Victoria...