Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf?: A case for the sanity of Virginia Woolf

By (author): "Irene Coates"
Publish Date: January 1st 1998
Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf?: A case for the sanity of Virginia Woolf
ISBN1569472947
ISBN139781569472941
AsinWho's Afraid of Leonard Woolf?: A case for the sanity of Virginia Woolf
Original titleWho's Afraid of Leonard Woolf?: A Case for the Sanity of Virginia Woolf
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