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Virginia Woolf: River Ouse
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In the final entry of her diary on 24th March 1941, Virginia Woolf left no clues to her impending suicide. Four days later she left Monk's House, in the Sussex village of Rodmell, and took her last walk along the pathway that runs beside the tranquil River Ouse, (pronounced: ooze) Her walking stick was recovered first, discarded on the edge of the river bank. Three weeks later, on 18th April, her drowned body was retrieved.
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A nervous, delicate child, Woolf was educated at home by her parents. She grew to become a central figure in the Bloomsbury group, a distinguished novelist, essayist and critic. Her writing explores concepts of time, memory and inner consciousness, and is remarkable for its humanity and depth of perception. She suffered from frequent bouts of depression and drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.
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Woolf's career ended when she experienced her final attack of mental illness ? she loaded her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse near her Sussex home on March 28, 1941. At the end of a tumultuous and prolific life, Woolf was known as a prominent British novelist, a distinguished feminist essayist, critic, and a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group.
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From the time of her mother’s death in 1895, Woolf suffered from what is now believed to have been bipolar disorder, which is characterized by alternating moods of mania and depression. In 1941, at the apparent onset of a period of depression, Woolf drowned herself in the Ouse River. She left her husband a note explaining that she feared she was going mad and this time would not recover.
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On 28 March 1941, rather than having another nervous breakdown, Woolf drowned herself by weighing her pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse near her home. Her body was not found until April 18. Her husband buried her remains under a tree in the garden of their house in Rodmell, Sussex.
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At the end of 1940 Woolf suffered another severe bout of mental illness. This time she felt she was unable to recover. On March 28, 1941, at the age of 59, Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse, near her home in Rodmell.
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