Selected Essays | Anne Fadiman on Virginia Woolf
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The Bleak Side of the Poem
The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf was published in 1941. In it she describes her decision to kill herself after seeing a moth while walking through London before the war. The essay is written with a pencil, not a pen as some have suggested. She and husband Leonard wrote seven days a week at their writing shed where they would write every day.
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