THE BOOK
When the wife of prominent politician Gilbert Clanton dies suddenly, he leaves all of her things tidy and in their place.
He inspects them with emotion and absentmindedly flips through her diary as he prepares for a formal meeting with her devoted assistant. But what he is about to learn will change everything he thought he knew about his wife and their life together...
Within the small span of this short story, Virginia Woolf's unerring pen weaves a comprehensive reflection on the certainties that often blind and the unseen desires that always lie between death and life.
THE CREATOR
A prominent representative of modernism in literature, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) wrote novels, short stories, groundbreaking essays, and criticism on the history of literature, art theory, women's writing, perception and essence, politics, and gender power.
Her fragile mental health – following the successive deaths of her mother, father and one brother at a young age – plagued her throughout her life, however, and at the age of 59, doubting her work and feeling unable to write any more, she committed suicide by drowning in the river behind her house.