![]() It is painful that such genius should evoke such mean-spirited response at present. There may be a lot of self-involvement in A Writer's Diary, but there is no self-pity (and what has to be remembered is that what Leonard published at that time was only a small part of all the journals, the part that concerned her work, so it had to be self-involved). And two houses to keep going! Who of us could accomplish what she did? ![]() (When I went there for tea, they were always going out for dinner and often to a party later on.) The gaiety and the fun of it all, the huge sense of life! The long, long walks through London that Elizabeth Bowen told me about. and editing, but, at least at the start, packing the books to go out!Īnd besides all that, they lived such an intense social life. Fragile she may have been, living on the edge of psychic disturbance, but think what she managed to do nonetheless - not only the novels (every one a breakthrough in form), but all those essays and reviews, all the work of the Hogarth Press, not only reading mss. ![]() ![]() “The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day. ![]()
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