By Virginia Woolf
This essay first appeared in 1926 in The New Criterion. Woolf asks the questions, why has literature been silent on the topic of illness? How does illness shape our understanding of ourselves, and the world around us?
Photograph of Virginia Woolf with hand on face wearing a fur stole, 1927.
“Photograph of Virginia Woolf, 1927” by Unknown is in the Public Domain
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