Doctors’ Orders
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, 18 February 1982
‘All that summer she was mad’: Virginia Woolf and Her Doctors
by Stephen Trombley.
Junction, 338 pp., £12.50, November 1981,9780862450397 Show More
by Stephen Trombley.
Junction, 338 pp., £12.50, November 1981,
“... 1904, his daughter Virginia lay in bed, listening to the birds singing in Greek and imagining King Edward lurking naked in the azaleas, shouting obscenities; that same summer she apparently attempted to kill herself by leaping out of the window. ‘I have never spent such a wretched 8 months in my life,’ she wrote to a friend when the crisis had passed. And ... ”