How Do People Change Under Stress? -- Virginia Woolf in Literature

Herbert Marder conceptualizes the last ten years of Virginia Woolf's life, focusing on her revolutionary works, which she created before committing suicide in 1941. It was the most difficult time in Woolf's life, but Marder explains, "My decision to write this biography grew out of a fascination with the way people change under stress."

As Marder narrates the last days of Virginia Woolf, her life comes into focus. As he says in the beginning: "She was a difficult writer, an ironist who made up stories and led her readers along obscure byways. She was often playful, sometimes malicious, and she enjoyed embellishing the facts about people." She was "a serious artist who was only trying to say, as exactly as possible, something that had never been said before." Read more about the life and death of Virginia Woolf. Also, find links and resources related to Virginia Woolf, read about recently discovered "lost notes," and find other books about Virginia Woolf.