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Virginia Woolf
On March 28th 1941 the British novelist Virginia Woolf took her own life. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and helped shape British culture in the early twentieth century.
On March 28th 1941 the British novelist Virginia Woolf took her own life. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and helped shape British culture in the early twentieth century. We'll hear archive interviews with her husband, sister, friends and even the writer herself.
Photo: Virginia Woolf in 1902 aged 20. (credit: Hulton Getty)
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Mon 28 Mar 201607:50GMT
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