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World Service,28 Mar 2016,9 mins

Virginia Woolf

Witness History

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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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