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Sylvia Townsend Warner on Virginia Woolf
Diaries 26thJanuary 1942
Diaries 26thJanuary 1942
‘At Boots Library the young woman put into my hands Virginia Woolf’s last book [Between The Acts]. And I received an extraordinary impression how light it was, how small, and frail. As though it was the premature-born child, and motherless, and literally, the last light handful remaining of that tall and abundant woman. The feeling has haunted me all day.’