Virginia Woolf is one of my favorite writers.
She was born in London,a member of the Duckworth publishing family.Becauce of her poor health,Virginia was educated at
home by her father.In middle age,she described this period in a letter to Vita Sackville-West:"Think how i was brought
up!No school,mooning about alone among my father's books;never any change to pick up all that goes on in schools---throwing
balls.ragging.slang.vulgarities.scenes.jealousies!"
Virginia's youth was shadowed by series of emotional shocks.Gerald Duckworth,her half-brother,sexually abused her.In sketch
of the past(1939)she wrote:"I can remember the feel of his hands going under my clothes,going firmly and steadily lower and
lower,i remember how i hoped he would stop,how i stiffened and wriggled as his hands approached my private parts.But he did
not stop."Julia Jackson Duckworth(her mother)died when she was in her early teens. Stella,her half-sister,took her mother's
place but died......
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